{"id":81770,"date":"2025-11-28T17:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=81770"},"modified":"2025-11-28T17:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:10:11","slug":"rachel-reeves-lied-to-brits-about-21bn-black-hole-to-justify-benefits-street-tax-raid-on-workers-and-knew-the-uk-actually-had-a-4bn-surplus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/28\/rachel-reeves-lied-to-brits-about-21bn-black-hole-to-justify-benefits-street-tax-raid-on-workers-and-knew-the-uk-actually-had-a-4bn-surplus\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Reeves &#8216;lied to Brits about \u00a321bn black hole to justify Benefits Street tax raid on workers&#8217; &#8211; and knew the UK actually had a \u00a34bn SURPLUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/11\/28\/14\/104269349-0-image-m-2_1764340871395.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel Reeves 'lied to Brits about \u00a321bn black hole to justify Benefits Street tax raid on\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/11\/28\/14\/104269349-0-image-m-2_1764340871395.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel Reeves 'lied to Brits about \u00a321bn black hole to justify Benefits Street tax raid on\" width=\"581\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-303522f0-cc64-11f0-82dc-6f5a62c5a2d6\" class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/rachel-reeves\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Rachel Reeves<\/a><\/span> was accused of &#8216;lying&#8217; to the public and markets today after the Treasury&#8217;s own watchdog revealed she was told months ago that there was no hole in the public finances.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15334981\/Rachel-Reeves-accused-lying-OBR-watchdog-reveals-told-MONTHS-Budget-NO-hole-public-finances-talked-misery-cover-brutal-tax-hikes.html\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Rachel Reeves was accused of &#8216;lying&#8217; to the public and markets today after the Treasury&#8217;s own watchdog revealed she was told months&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Rachel-Reeves.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81771,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81770\/revisions\/81771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}