{"id":25414,"date":"2023-02-02T20:49:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T20:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/02\/02\/labour-would-extend-windfall-tax-and-freeze-fuel-duty\/"},"modified":"2023-02-02T20:49:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T20:49:54","slug":"labour-would-extend-windfall-tax-and-freeze-fuel-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=25414","title":{"rendered":"Labour &#8216;would extend windfall tax and freeze fuel duty&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Rachel Reeves said Labour would extend the windfall tax to keep gas and electricity bills \u201cas low as possible\u201d, and freeze fuel duty, if the party was delivering the next Budget. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Speaking on the day the Bank of England raised the base interest rate to 4%, the shadow chancellor said families were facing \u201cpunitive\u201d extra costs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Ms Reeves said she was &#8220;hugely ambitious&#8221; for the UK economy, but the country needed a government that got behind British workers and businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/business-64457377\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Bank raises interest rate but says inflation easing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-64498141?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Rachel Reeves said Labour would extend the windfall tax to keep gas and electricity bills \u201cas low as possible\u201d, and freeze fuel duty, if the party was delivering the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25415,"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\/25414"}],"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=25414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}