{"id":713287,"date":"2026-07-27T09:07:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713287\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T09:07:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:07:24","slug":"chamber-calls-for-urgent-action-to-tackle-difficult-economic-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713287\/","title":{"rendered":"Chamber calls for urgent action to tackle &#8216;difficult&#8217; economic position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Monday, 27 July 2026 06:24\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/321863-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Picture credit: Chamber of Commerce<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Group holds talks with politicians and election candidates ahead of election\n        <\/p>\n<p>The Chamber of Commerce is calling on the next administration to tackle the &#8220;difficult place&#8221; the Manx economy is in.<\/p>\n<p>The group, which represents a number of sectors from the Island&#8217;s business community, has been holding talks with politicians and election candidates this week.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation warns that without action to restore growth, the Island faces long term economic decline.<\/p>\n<p>James Kingston was the guest speaker at an event held by the Isle of Man Chamber of Commerce this week.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0says the Island could take advantage of some incredible opportunities if it had a &#8216;cultural shift&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He and Chris Corlett from the Chamber have been speaking to Manx Radio&#8217;s John Moss:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, 27 July 2026 06:24 Picture credit: Chamber of Commerce Group holds talks with politicians and election candidates&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,96,758,755,756,757,128,50,759,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-713287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-entertainment","tag-fun","tag-isle-of-man","tag-manx","tag-manx-news","tag-music","tag-news","tag-presenters","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713287","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=713287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}