{"id":53360,"date":"2024-06-13T17:16:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T07:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=53360"},"modified":"2024-06-13T17:16:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T07:16:18","slug":"uks-labour-pitches-for-power-with-promise-of-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=53360","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s Labour pitches for power with promise of growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Britain&#8217;s Labour party on Thursday launches its general election manifesto, hoping that a promise to get the economy growing again will catapult it into power after 14 years in opposition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Labour has been consistently some 20 points ahead of Rishi Sunak&#8217;s Conservatives for nearly two years, making its leader Keir Starmer a virtual shoe-in as the country&#8217;s next prime minister if polls are correct.<\/p>\n<p>But Starmer, 61, still has work to do before polling day on July 4 to overcome persistent Tory claims about Labour profligacy with public finances and warnings that it will increase personal taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The manifesto launch comes two days after the Tories promised voters more tax cuts, in a campaign where the affordability of the main parties&#8217; spending plans have come under close scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>In details trailed in advance by the party, Starmer will describe Labour&#8217;s blueprint for government as a &#8220;manifesto for wealth creation&#8221; and call it &#8220;our number one priority&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Labour party on Thursday launches its general election manifesto, hoping that a promise to get the economy growing again will catapult it into power after 14 years in opposition. Labour has been consistently some 20 points ahead of Rishi Sunak&#8217;s Conservatives for nearly two years, making its leader Keir Starmer a virtual shoe-in as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1747],"class_list":["post-53360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-uks-labour-pitches-for-power-with-promise-of-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}