{"id":514825,"date":"2025-10-20T16:36:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/514825\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T16:36:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:36:19","slug":"the-budget-the-black-hole-and-the-brexit-blame-game-podcast-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/514825\/","title":{"rendered":"The budget, the black hole and the Brexit blame game \u2013 podcast | Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Reeves is facing difficult choices before her second budget next month and has been busy preparing the ground. In a significant shift in the government\u2019s narrative, Reeves has \u2013 at last \u2013 stressed the long-term damage done to the UK economy by Brexit. <\/p>\n<p>Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss the options available to the chancellor and whether the pivot to blaming Brexit will convince the public. Plus, what a foul-mouthed meeting tells us about Reform, why the imminent result of Labour\u2019s deputy leader contest matters, and what parliament can do about Prince Andrew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rachel Reeves is facing difficult choices before her second budget next month and has been busy preparing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-514825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115407473033106421","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}