{"id":12990,"date":"2017-10-30T01:01:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T00:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/30\/uk-deficit-to-heighten-pressure-on-chancellor-ahead-of-budget\/"},"modified":"2017-10-30T01:01:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T00:01:41","slug":"uk-deficit-to-heighten-pressure-on-chancellor-ahead-of-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=12990","title":{"rendered":"UK deficit to heighten pressure on chancellor ahead of budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh analysis reveals \u00a320bn gap between government spending and tax receipts, says Institute for Fiscal StudiesFresh analysis that reveals a hole of almost \u00a320bn in the public finances will heighten the pressure on the chancellor, Philip Hammond, ahead of next month\u2019s budget.Britain is on track for the deficit \u2013 the gap between government spending and tax receipts \u2013 to reach \u00a336bn by 2021-22, more than twice the initial official forecast of \u00a317bn, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2017\/oct\/30\/uk-deficit-to-heighten-pressure-on-chancellor-ahead-of-budget\" target=\"_blank\">UK deficit to heighten pressure on chancellor ahead of budget<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh analysis reveals \u00a320bn gap between government spending and tax receipts, says Institute for Fiscal StudiesFresh analysis that reveals a hole of almost \u00a320bn in the public finances will heighten the pressure on the chancellor, Philip Hammond, ahead of next month\u2019s budget.Britain is on track for the deficit \u2013 the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}