{"id":258862,"date":"2025-03-14T05:38:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T05:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/is-keir-starmer-bringing-back-austerity\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T05:38:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T05:38:19","slug":"is-keir-starmer-bringing-back-austerity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/is-keir-starmer-bringing-back-austerity\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Keir Starmer bringing back austerity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e3.365dm.com\/24\/08\/1920x1080\/skynews-electoral-dysfunction_6670735.png?20240830000658&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Is Keir Starmer bringing back austerity?\" title=\"Is Keir Starmer bringing back austerity?\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/electoral-dysfunction\/id1613562765\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \ud83d\udc49 Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app \ud83d\udc48<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sir Keir Starmer is doubling down on his bid to reduce government waste, but is his plan a fix or just more spending spin? Beth is in Hull after hearing what the Labour leader is promising, including scrapping NHS England to &#8220;cut bureaucracy&#8221; and bringing management of the health service &#8220;back into democratic control&#8221;. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alongside Harriet and Ruth, they also discuss Starmer potentially facing down a rebellion from his own MPs over plans to shake up benefits reform and welfare payments.<\/p>\n<p>The cracks are widening for Reform UK&#8217;s internal spat. Beth speaks to Andrea Jenkyns, who left the Tories to join Reform, on the party&#8217;s latest bust-up, and Ruth and Harriet look at whether the party&#8217;s chaos is helping both Labour and the Conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>Email us at <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/mailto:electoraldysfunction@sky.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">electoraldysfunction@sky.uk<\/a>, post on X to @BethRigby, or send a WhatsApp voice note on 07934 200 444.<\/p>\n<p>And remember, you can also watch us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLG8IrydigQffkV94y_hhSFgZC-lgZ5rod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/is-keir-starmer-bringing-back-austerity-13327954\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udc49 Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app \ud83d\udc48 Sir Keir Starmer is doubling down on his bid to reduce government waste, but is his plan a fix or just more spending spin? Beth is in Hull after hearing what the Labour leader is promising, including scrapping NHS England to &#8220;cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/24\/08\/1920x1080\/skynews-electoral-dysfunction_6670735.png?20240830000658","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[57741,6606,3959,3960],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258862"}],"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=258862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258864,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258862\/revisions\/258864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}