{"id":813374,"date":"2024-12-20T23:14:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T05:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/20\/will-spending-cuts-be-yesterdays-news-by-the-next-general-election\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T23:14:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T05:14:38","slug":"will-spending-cuts-be-yesterdays-news-by-the-next-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/20\/will-spending-cuts-be-yesterdays-news-by-the-next-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Will spending cuts be yesterday&#8217;s news by the next general election?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2011-05-12T15:06:04.000Z\"> May 12th 2011<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-body-id=\"cp2\">\n<p>By Bagehot<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"paragraph\">BRITAIN&#8217;S politicians are still getting used to the idea of knowing the date of the next general election. Many cannot quite believe that the next election will be held on May 7th 2015, as set out in the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/resources\/coalition_programme_for_government.pdf\"> coalition agreement<\/a>, regularly predicting that the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats will split before then or that David Cameron may feel tempted to call a snap election if the polls look like handing him an overall majority. Perhaps such sceptics may yet be proved right.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s100.copyright.com\/AppDispatchServlet?publisherName=economist&#038;publication=economist&#038;title=Will%20spending%20cuts%20be%20yesterday%27s%20news%20by%20the%20next%20general%20election%3F&#038;publicationDate=2011-05-12&#038;contentID=%2Fcontent%2Faohg80i4o3kfgr2402kk3ntm4acb11qs&#038;type=A&#038;orderBeanReset=TRUE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" data-analytics=\"end_of_article:reuse_this_content\"><span>Reuse this content<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/bagehots-notebook\/2011\/05\/12\/will-spending-cuts-be-yesterdays-news-by-the-next-general-election\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Rubi Serna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 12th 2011 By Bagehot BRITAIN&#8217;S politicians are still getting used to the idea of knowing the date of the next general election. Many cannot quite believe that the next election will be held on May 7th 2015, as set out in the coalition agreement, regularly predicting that the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats will split<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":813375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2510,31384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spending","category-yesterdays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}