{"id":17106,"date":"2022-11-18T20:03:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T20:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/11\/18\/chancellor-defends-the-impact-of-his-autumn-statement-on-squeezed-middle\/"},"modified":"2022-11-18T20:03:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T20:03:13","slug":"chancellor-defends-the-impact-of-his-autumn-statement-on-squeezed-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=17106","title":{"rendered":"Chancellor defends the impact of his autumn statement on &#8216;squeezed middle&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has defended his Autumn Statement and the impact it will have on middle income earners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">He told BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Today programme: &#8220;What we&#8217;re doing with this package&#8230;is to ask people who have more to contribute more&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">&#8220;We want to take the difficult decisions in a fair way,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Yesterday he announced the government&#8217;s tax and spending plans to try stabilise the economy as the cost of living soars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-63674239?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has defended his Autumn Statement and the impact it will have on middle income earners. He told BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Today programme: &#8220;What we&#8217;re doing with &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}