{"id":674804,"date":"2026-07-05T09:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T09:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674804\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T09:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T09:36:08","slug":"sunday-with-laura-kuenssberg-live-jenrick-says-farage-broke-no-rules-over-ally-benefits-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674804\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg live: Jenrick says Farage broke no rules over ally benefits claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Reform is preparing for an early general election,&#8217; Jenrick sayspublished at 10:03 BST<\/p>\n<p>10:03 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Andy Burnham, the likely next Labour leader and prime minister, Jenrick says he is appearing on the programme today to warn that Burnham will hike taxes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He says Burnham is not prepared to &#8220;cut the ballooning benefits bill&#8221; to pay for defence or better public services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burnham doesn&#8217;t have the mandate to raise taxes, Jenrick says, adding the new Makerfield MP should call a general election. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The country is going down and down and down and that&#8217;s why we need Reform,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reform is preparing for an early general election, he adds, vowing the party would be ready to govern if it wins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[Farage is] not going anywhere, sorry to disappoint you,&#8221; Jenrick concludes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That&#8217;s all from Reform UK&#8217;s Robert Jenrick. We&#8217;ll shortly bring you a recap of all the key points from the programme. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Reform is preparing for an early general election,&#8217; Jenrick sayspublished at 10:03 BST 10:03 BST On Andy Burnham,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-674804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}