{"id":7639,"date":"2022-08-27T23:21:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T23:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/08\/27\/newspaper-headlines-wave-of-strikes-and-truss-mulls-5-vat-cut\/"},"modified":"2022-08-27T23:21:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T23:21:44","slug":"newspaper-headlines-wave-of-strikes-and-truss-mulls-5-vat-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=7639","title":{"rendered":"Newspaper headlines: &#8216;Wave of strikes&#8217; and Truss &#8216;mulls 5% VAT cut&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e1y6uwnp0\">Image caption, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Sunday Telegraph reports that Liz Truss, currently favourite to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister, is considering a &#8220;nuclear&#8221; VAT cut of 5%. The paper says the measure, modelled on Gordon Brown&#8217;s response to the 2008 financial crisis, would cost the government \u00a338.4bn a year, but would save the average household more than \u00a31,300 over the same period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/blogs-the-papers-62703842?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Image caption, The Sunday Telegraph reports that Liz Truss, currently favourite to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister, is considering a &#8220;nuclear&#8221; VAT cut of 5%. The paper says &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639"}],"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=7639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}