{"id":29316,"date":"2022-10-15T20:20:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T20:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=29316"},"modified":"2022-10-15T20:20:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T20:20:33","slug":"jeremy-hunt-we-need-to-make-difficult-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2022\/10\/15\/jeremy-hunt-we-need-to-make-difficult-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Hunt: We need to make difficult decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK DESK: Difficult decisions will be needed &#8220;across the board&#8221; on tax and spending, the new chancellor has said.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Hunt told the BBC that some taxes will go up, while government spending may need to fall.<\/p>\n<p>He said he had a clean slate after Prime Minister Liz Truss sacked Kwasi Kwarteng and announced another mini-budget U-turn on a dramatic day.<\/p>\n<p>Cutting the top rate of tax and not independently costing measures were mistakes being &#8220;put right&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 24 hours into his new role, Mr Hunt was signalling a big shift away from the economic policies of his predecessor and Ms Truss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK DESK: Difficult decisions will be needed &ldquo;across the board&rdquo; on tax and spending, the new chancellor has said. Jeremy Hunt told the BBC that some taxes will go up, while government spending may need to fall. He said he had a clean slate after Prime Minister Liz Truss sacked Kwasi Kwarteng and announced another mini-budget U-turn on a dramatic day. Cutting the top rate of tax and not independently costing measures were mistakes being &ldquo;put right&rdquo;, he added. Less than 24 hours into his new role, Mr Hunt was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29318,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29316\/revisions\/29318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}