{"id":123792,"date":"2026-05-20T22:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/123792\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T22:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:55:12","slug":"reeves-to-set-out-uk-cost-of-living-plan-to-cushion-iran-war-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/123792\/","title":{"rendered":"Reeves to Set Out UK Cost of Living Plan to Cushion Iran War Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves will detail a package of measures to ease cost-of-living pressures on Thursday, as the British government tries to limit the impact of the Iran war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Reeves, who is expected to give a statement in Parliament at about 11:30 a.m., will announce plans including free bus travel for kids throughout August and the prospect of cuts to agri-food tariffs, the Treasury said in a statement, dubbing the interventions \u201cGreat British Summer Savings.\u201d The moves come in addition to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-05-20\/uk-to-delay-hike-in-motor-fuel-tax-in-bid-to-ease-living-costs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">freeze<\/a> on fuel duty until the end of the year that was announced by Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves will detail a package of measures to ease cost-of-living pressures on Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[42008,7440,6446,6316,394,1004,34,207,462,691,36],"class_list":["post-123792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-august","tag-economic-sanctions","tag-food","tag-g7","tag-government","tag-inflation","tag-iran","tag-markets","tag-travel","tag-united-kingdom","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116609372840390683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}