{"id":382399,"date":"2018-10-25T23:13:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T22:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-labour-urges-real-end-to-austerity\/"},"modified":"2018-10-25T23:13:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T22:13:03","slug":"presstv-uk-labour-urges-real-end-to-austerity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-labour-urges-real-end-to-austerity\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-UK Labour urges \u2018real\u2019 end to austerity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Britain\u2019s opposition Labour Party has called on Prime Minister Theresa May to deliver on its promises of ending nearly a decade of austerity, saying May\u2019s administration must show to the public in the next year budget that spending cuts are really over.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Labour\u2019s finance policy chief John McDonnell, the second in command of the party, said Thursday that Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond should avoid sticking to financial \u201ctricks\u201d in his next week budget announcement and\u00a0 provide the public with facts that could support government claims of ending austerity in Britain after eight years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need decisive action to end and reverse austerity, not some vague promises for the future and a few financial conjuring tricks,\u201d said McDonnell, who is also Britain\u2019s so-called shadow chancellor, adding, \u201cThis budget will show us whether she (May) is true to her word or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Conservative-led government has adopted a series&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/25\/578081\/UK-government-austerity-end-claims-Labour\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s opposition Labour Party has called on Prime Minister Theresa May to deliver on its promises of ending nearly a decade of austerity, saying May\u2019s administration must show to the public in the next year budget that spending cuts are really over. Labour\u2019s finance policy chief John McDonnell, the second in command of the party, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}