{"id":47105,"date":"2018-06-27T15:45:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T13:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/27\/philip-hammond-under-fire-over-sale-of-lloyds-shares\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T15:45:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T13:45:38","slug":"philip-hammond-under-fire-over-sale-of-lloyds-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=47105","title":{"rendered":"Philip Hammond under fire over sale of Lloyds shares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watchdog calculated \u00a36bn loss to taxpayers, which contradicts chancellor\u2019s claimA claim by Philip Hammond that the government profited by selling off Lloyds Banking Group shares has been questioned by Whitehall\u2019s spending watchdog, which has calculated a loss to the taxpayer of nearly \u00a36bn.During last year\u2019s general election, the chancellor claimed that the government had recovered its losses and received \u00a3900m more than it had spent on bailing out the bank. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/jun\/27\/philip-hammond-under-fire-over-sale-of-lloyds-shares\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Hammond under fire over sale of Lloyds shares<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watchdog calculated \u00a36bn loss to taxpayers, which contradicts chancellor\u2019s claimA claim by Philip Hammond that the government profited by selling off Lloyds Banking Group shares has been questioned by Whitehall\u2019s spending watchdog, which has calculated a loss to the taxpayer of nearly \u00a36bn.During last year\u2019s general election, the chancellor claimed [&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-47105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47105","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=47105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}