{"id":77310,"date":"2024-08-18T08:13:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T07:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=77310"},"modified":"2024-08-18T08:14:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T07:14:13","slug":"how-long-will-rachel-reeves-last-in-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/08\/18\/how-long-will-rachel-reeves-last-in-office\/","title":{"rendered":"How long will Rachel Reeves last in office?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/article\/2024\/aug\/18\/the-observer-view-on-growth-labour-must-be-prepared-to-spend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Observer editorial<\/a> says Labour cannot deliver without changing its fiscal rules:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-77311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_1495-550x193.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_1495-550x193.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_1495-768x270.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_1495-600x211.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_1495.jpeg 1495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/article\/2024\/aug\/18\/austerity-is-still-austerity-even-under-a-labour-government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Keegan joins the theme<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-77313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_1496-550x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_1496-550x225.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_1496-768x314.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_1496-1536x628.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_1496-600x245.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_1496.jpeg 1567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reeves can ignore blogs like this one saying that she is getting her economics wrong. It\u2019s harder when the Sunday paper of Labour choice joins in the chorus of those saying she is getting her whole approach wrong.<\/p>\n<p>But will she listen? Or \u00a0does she, like the dogmatists who have preceded her in post, believe she knows better than everyone because she\u2019s delivering what was taught on her Oxford PPE?<\/p>\n<p>My suspicion is she will not be for changing.<\/p>\n<p>I also suspect she will not be Chancellor for more than two years as a result. Starmer will be panicking by then as everything falls apart around him, and her time will be up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Observer editorial says Labour cannot deliver without changing its fiscal rules: In the paper, Bill Keegan joins the theme: Reeves can ignore blogs like<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/08\/18\/how-long-will-rachel-reeves-last-in-office\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77315,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77310\/revisions\/77315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}