{"id":71671,"date":"2026-04-14T12:56:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/reeves-arrives-at-imf-with-little-leeway-to-prove-its-uk-downgrade-wrong\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:56:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:56:01","slug":"reeves-arrives-at-imf-with-little-leeway-to-prove-its-uk-downgrade-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/reeves-arrives-at-imf-with-little-leeway-to-prove-its-uk-downgrade-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Reeves arrives at IMF with little leeway to prove its UK downgrade wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor faced with fund\u2019s forecast that impact of Iran war will leave Britain as G7\u2019s biggest loser<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/apr\/14\/iran-war-global-recession-imf-uk-growth-forecasts-oil-prices\">Iran war escalation could trigger global recession, IMF warns<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Iran war is bad news for the global economy. But for some countries, the unfolding conflict is having a bigger impact than for others. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/apr\/14\/iran-war-global-recession-imf-uk-growth-forecasts-oil-prices\">International Monetary Fund\u2019s verdict<\/a> is that Britain is the G7\u2019s biggest loser.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the rising damage from the Middle East war, the Washington-based fund warned UK economic growth rate would be 0.5 percentage points lower this year than it had predicted back in January \u2013 the biggest downgrade among the club of wealthy nations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/apr\/14\/rachel-reeves-arrives-at-imf-with-little-leeway-to-prove-its-uk-downgrade-wrong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor faced with fund\u2019s forecast that impact of Iran war will leave Britain as G7\u2019s biggest loser Iran war escalation could trigger global recession, IMF warns The Iran war is bad news for the global economy. But for some countries, the unfolding conflict is having a bigger impact than for others. The International Monetary Fund\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Reeves arrives at IMF with little leeway to prove its UK downgrade wrong\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/reeves-arrives-at-imf-with-little-leeway-to-prove-its-uk-downgrade-wrong\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Reeves arrives at IMF with little leeway to prove its UK downgrade wrong\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}