{"id":687474,"date":"2026-07-12T10:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T10:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687474\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T10:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T10:18:09","slug":"reeves-took-the-wrong-choices-shadow-chancellor-tells-laura-kuenssberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687474\/","title":{"rendered":"Reeves took the wrong choices, shadow chancellor tells Laura Kuenssberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

What we’ve heard from the panel this morningpublished at 10:20 BST<\/p>\n

10:20 BST<\/p>\n

\"Miatta<\/p>\n

We’re wrapping up our coverage now, but before we go, here’s what was discussed on this week’s panel.<\/p>\n

On the death of former Conservative minister turned Reform UK spokesperson Ann Widdecombe, Reform’s Nadhim Zahawi says she was “always warm, courteous and kind”.<\/p>\n

“It’s heartbreaking what’s happened,” he adds.<\/p>\n

On Rachel Reeves’ time as chancellor, Miatta Fahnbulleh says she had a “really difficult” set of cards dealt to her in an economy that had been stagnating. Her legacy will be that she made the choice to invest, and record investment into the NHS.<\/p>\n

Whether Reeves stays in her role when Starmer leaves office, Fahnbulleh says this is a decision for Andy Burnham, or whoever is in the top job, to make.<\/p>\n

Zahawi, though, says Reeves made some “very bad choices”. He says there is stagnation and low or no growth and asks why Labour have not invested in our gas and oil. <\/p>\n

And, on Nigel Farage – who officially resigned from his Clacton seat this week following intense scrutiny over financial support he has received – Zahawi said the party’s leader has “done the right thing”. <\/p>\n

He claims there is a “co-ordinated attack” on Farage, who has denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

Fahnbulleh responds, saying “if you do things wrong, you have to be held to account”.<\/p>\n

We’re wrapping up our text coverage now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What we’ve heard from the panel this morningpublished at 10:20 BST 10:20 BST We’re wrapping up our coverage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-687474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687474","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=687474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}