{"id":39253,"date":"2026-01-01T00:17:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/keir-starmer-to-woo-voters-and-mps-with-new-year-plan-to-cut-cost-of-living\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:17:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:17:38","slug":"keir-starmer-to-woo-voters-and-mps-with-new-year-plan-to-cut-cost-of-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/keir-starmer-to-woo-voters-and-mps-with-new-year-plan-to-cut-cost-of-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer to woo voters and MPs with new year plan to cut cost of living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM to highlight energy bill and interest rate cuts, plus end to two-child benefit cap, and to invite his MPs to Chequers<\/p>\n<p>Keir Starmer will attempt to rescue his relationship with disillusioned voters and his own fractious MPs in a new year push to reduce the cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister will give a speech in the coming days focusing on how his government is bringing down living costs, highlighting recent cuts to energy bills and interest rates and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/nov\/26\/labour-mps-celebrate-end-of-two-child-benefit-cap-in-rachel-reeves-budget\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the end<\/a> of the two-child benefit cap.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/dec\/31\/keir-starmer-woo-voters-labour-mps-new-year-plan-cut-cost-of-living\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM to highlight energy bill and interest rate cuts, plus end to two-child benefit cap, and to invite his MPs to Chequers Keir Starmer will attempt to rescue his relationship with disillusioned voters and his own fractious MPs in a new year push to reduce the cost of living. The prime minister will give a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 11:19:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}