{"id":705070,"date":"2026-07-22T10:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705070\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T10:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:35:09","slug":"burnham-backs-down-on-income-tax-giveaway-as-bus-fares-cap-announced-live-london-evening-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705070\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnham backs down on income tax giveaway as bus fares cap announced &#8211; live &#8211; London Evening Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitAFBVV95cUxPSTlpNmhHcFJ3anR4MldfOHFDMVRpWkw3SzFfeXEteFRlOHVTeDFPTm5GUXdYbzNGUVpobkhod0k2Tm9TekpyQTctaEhSRmRaR3JEaVQtS25XNWV6UVRtcUtjOXlySkdzdkVUNVFKTDU2LVVrbWk0Q0ZFb3lTdUFpeEtVU1E3a0FKZlJDU242UmFZQy1ZMW13Z09zakdDb0ZkdVU0bTctTHk5dVFJSmR4cjdJM3U?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Burnham backs down on income tax giveaway as bus fares cap announced &#8211; live<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;London Evening Standard<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiXEFVX3lxTE5qOFJQaTktZHlvcjdzdmdZSTRCcDlpMlBqUy1RajZEUUFKU25kZEs2bkNnQXdxaGxoNmRJV3psWlJ4eGh6M0lmT09zcWtRNzg3VHpCSENGN0VBTmZB?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Burnham pulls back on suggestion to increase tax-free personal allowance<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilAFBVV95cUxQYlo0OElMZVE5OVR1ZlM2dVA0OXYwQVdkNmxHX2JlRWNpcFVlSDc5a2FLYlVIeHJuam12RXBRSVRxWUVnYklVWEhqdzExT0w2ZnpjZVkxUi1pRU1yaFhOaWdNRTJYTURuRE5YMGt4LVF6aWsxcTI1Vjh2WTRpOEZPRC1ZUGxNSTJkR2hwSDhUYk5nanJH?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Burnham backs down on income tax giveaway<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Telegraph<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqwFBVV95cUxPeUl3TDJrX1J3WjNRYU1iMWtKNlBubnZCTDhRZWZ4V053a3JmeFljMm4yWFE3QTBaVUFhR1VPVUJadlNfaEZfcVBxYktLWU91T2JFd0FYNVBJQ1ZMMFEwM25GdVhzM1RSWkZLNHowd3Frcko5STRVRkFMRmh2UHRYWFZEOUVZVjlqNGJsNWJNMkFrbGdmakx0RDN0QlZKMzg0VXplR040TkJmR2s?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Times letters: Burnham\u2019s plan for the pound in your pocket<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihAFBVV95cUxNN0JmU3EydEhuZUk3Qzk5NmdPdDRZWTZLMDBZSGVDYlRhcmh1c0p4YXpMWm5mOTBlQVpVYTM3WEFka3RKVFhCOXV0WVBEekU4bkJDaEQzWWNlZW9SOEMtMlRVSnlNQUJ2S0FmT3MxYzhzbFNOd0pCdThtUmFRVWFVR0Z3U1k?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Andy Burnham backs away from costly increase to income tax allowance<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Financial Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Burnham backs down on income tax giveaway as bus fares cap announced &#8211; live&nbsp;&nbsp;London Evening StandardBurnham pulls back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19306,59,57,58,1634,50,164256,10365,70,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-705070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-andy-burnham","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-labour","tag-news","tag-polling","tag-prime-minister","tag-reform-uk","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705070","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=705070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}