{"id":63192,"date":"2024-05-31T14:51:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T14:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/31\/snp-leader-fears-prolonged-austerity-under-possible-labour-government\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T14:51:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T14:51:28","slug":"snp-leader-fears-prolonged-austerity-under-possible-labour-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/31\/snp-leader-fears-prolonged-austerity-under-possible-labour-government\/","title":{"rendered":"SNP leader fears &#8216;prolonged austerity&#8217; under possible Labour government"},"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\/caf9\/live\/b15bc080-1f5b-11ef-80aa-699d54c46324.jpg?resize=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"SNP leader fears &#8216;prolonged austerity&#8217; under possible Labour government\" title=\"SNP leader fears &#8216;prolonged austerity&#8217; under possible Labour government\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">SNP leader John Swinney says he worries the Labour Party has signed up to &#8220;prolonged austerity&#8221; in order to boost its financial credibility. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">During a speech in Glasgow, the first minister says his ability to enhance Scotland&#8217;s health and education services could be &#8220;eroded by spending cuts from London&#8221;. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Mr Swinney added that there was a broad consensus to &#8220;get rid of the Tories&#8221;, but said Scottish voters were likely to be &#8220;disappointed&#8221; in the alternative being offered by the Labour Party. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Labour has said the UK would not return to austerity measures if it wins the general election. It has also pledged not to raise VAT, income tax or National Insurance.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cv225k1wdk9o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SNP leader John Swinney says he worries the Labour Party has signed up to &#8220;prolonged austerity&#8221; in order to boost its financial credibility. During a speech in Glasgow, the first minister says his ability to enhance Scotland&#8217;s health and education services could be &#8220;eroded by spending cuts from London&#8221;. Mr Swinney added that there was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63193,"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\/caf9\/live\/b15bc080-1f5b-11ef-80aa-699d54c46324.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[57741,2622,3954,843,1891,5881,4356],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63192"}],"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=63192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63194,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63192\/revisions\/63194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}