{"id":799783,"date":"2026-10-12T03:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799783\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T03:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:36:08","slug":"newspaper-headlines-tax-rises-needed-to-plug-35bn-gap-and-putin-breaks-trumps-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799783\/","title":{"rendered":"Newspaper headlines: &#8216;Tax rises needed to plug \u00a335bn gap&#8217; and &#8216;Putin breaks Trump&#8217;s &#8216;ceasefire&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Several of today&#8217;s papers cover a warning form the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) of a funding gap in UK finances ahead of the chancellor&#8217;s Budget. The i Paper leads with the \u00a335bn &#8220;gap&#8221;, saying tax rises will be &#8220;needed to plug&#8221; it. It attributes this to &#8220;high inflation and the UK&#8217;s defence spending pledge&#8221;. The Treasury declined to comment on speculation surrounding the Budget. The paper also covers the deadly attacks on Riyadh airport, saying they have alarmed &#8220;Saudi elite &#8211; and Washington&#8221;. According to The i, the BBC will fill its &#8220;license fee hole&#8221; by selling Blue Planet III and launching a &#8220;new dating show for right-wing men&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several of today&#8217;s papers cover a warning form the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) of a funding gap&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-799783","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\/799783","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=799783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}