{"id":266965,"date":"2025-03-26T07:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T07:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/spring-statement-reeves-eleventh-hour-blackhole\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T07:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T07:52:12","slug":"spring-statement-reeves-eleventh-hour-blackhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/spring-statement-reeves-eleventh-hour-blackhole\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring statement: Reeves&#8217; eleventh hour blackhole"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/03\/1920x1080\/skynews-politics-at-sam-and-annes_6856408.png?20250314163649&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Spring statement: Reeves&#8217; eleventh hour blackhole\" title=\"Spring statement: Reeves&#8217; eleventh hour blackhole\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p><a href=\" https:\/\/podfollow.com\/politics-at-sam-and-annes\">\ud83d\udc49Listen to Politics at Sam and Anne&#8217;s on your podcast app\ud83d\udc48<\/a>    <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s spring statement day &#8211; a bigger day than the Treasury probably ever wanted it to be &#8211; but definitely not a budget.<\/p>\n<p>With Chancellor Rachel Reeves on course to break her own fiscal rules, she&#8217;ll lay out how she intends to find billions of pounds of extra savings.<\/p>\n<p>At the eleventh hour, it looks like welfare cuts will be tougher than first thought &#8211; with a hit on Universal Credit.<\/p>\n<p>Sam and Anne outline what the calculations are likely to be and how the chancellor will handle the day.<\/p>\n<p>And beyond today &#8211; if there&#8217;s no glimmer of growth by the end of the year, how would she approach the autumn budget? Could that be where raising taxes is the only option?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/spring-statement-reeves-eleventh-hour-blackhole-13335954\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udc49Listen to Politics at Sam and Anne&#8217;s on your podcast app\ud83d\udc48 It&#8217;s spring statement day &#8211; a bigger day than the Treasury probably ever wanted it to be &#8211; but definitely not a budget. With Chancellor Rachel Reeves on course to break her own fiscal rules, she&#8217;ll lay out how she intends to find billions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/03\/1920x1080\/skynews-politics-at-sam-and-annes_6856408.png?20250314163649","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[116371,205231,3637,4948,1989,3884],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266965"}],"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=266965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266967,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266965\/revisions\/266967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}