{"id":975,"date":"2026-05-14T14:44:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=975"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:44:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:44:52","slug":"reeves-seizes-on-surprise-uk-growth-as-evidence-labour-leadership-must-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=975","title":{"rendered":"Reeves seizes on surprise UK growth as evidence Labour leadership must stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor says \u2018now not the time to put economic stability at risk\u2019 as ONS records 0.3% growth in first month of Iran war<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/may\/14\/uk-gdp-report-economic-growth-iran-war-rachel-reeves-bond-yields-live-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/14\/rachel-reeves-uk-economy-gdp-boost\">Analysis: Reeves says \u2018if economy ain\u2019t broke, don\u2019t fix it\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The chancellor has seized on official figures showing the UK economy was more resilient than feared at the start of the Iran war as evidence to keep the current Labour leadership in place.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Reeves hailed the fact that the economy unexpectedly grew in March, during the first month of the conflict in the Middle East, as proof the government had \u201cthe right economic plan\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/14\/uk-economy-records-surprise-growth-first-month-iran-war-ons-data\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor says \u2018now not the time to put economic stability at risk\u2019 as ONS records 0.3% growth in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}