{"id":161192,"date":"2024-10-25T09:12:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T09:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/25\/minister-put-on-spot-over-working-people-definition\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T09:12:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T09:12:21","slug":"minister-put-on-spot-over-working-people-definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/25\/minister-put-on-spot-over-working-people-definition\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister put on spot over &#8216;working people&#8217; definition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/f4b0\/live\/8320e2b0-92ae-11ef-89ae-5575c76d98e6.jpg?resize=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Minister put on spot over &#8216;working people&#8217; definition\" title=\"Minister put on spot over &#8216;working people&#8217; definition\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Treasury minister James Murray was asked to define &#8220;working people&#8221; amid speculation that the chancellor could raise some taxes in the Budget next week.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Murray said the government will keep its manifesto promise to &#8220;protect working people&#8221;, but he did not answer directly when asked if that group includes landlords, people who own shares or who sell a business.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;Working people are people who go out to work for their income,&#8221; he told presenter Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Today programme on Friday morning.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Asked for a fifth time if he would count landlords among that group, Murray said: &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to get into too many hypotheticals here, Nick.&#8221;<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c86q911v8q8o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury minister James Murray was asked to define &#8220;working people&#8221; amid speculation that the chancellor could raise some taxes in the Budget next week. Murray said the government will keep its manifesto promise to &#8220;protect working people&#8221;, but he did not answer directly when asked if that group includes landlords, people who own shares or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/f4b0\/live\/8320e2b0-92ae-11ef-89ae-5575c76d98e6.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[729,2124,124,1293,2345,5864],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161194,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161192\/revisions\/161194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}