{"id":77802,"date":"2026-02-18T15:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/starmer-urged-to-stick-to-manifesto-following-reports-lifting-of-youth-minimum-wage-may-be-delayed-uk-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:00:25","slug":"starmer-urged-to-stick-to-manifesto-following-reports-lifting-of-youth-minimum-wage-may-be-delayed-uk-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/starmer-urged-to-stick-to-manifesto-following-reports-lifting-of-youth-minimum-wage-may-be-delayed-uk-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer urged to stick to manifesto following reports lifting of youth minimum wage may be delayed \u2013 UK politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/eafac2691a8049f3d89f2dcd23de5751c3800462\/0_0_2386_1909\/master\/2386.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctbGl2ZS5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=394d09c1de822c5dff9d94b16ddbd13c\" alt=\"Starmer urged to stick to manifesto following reports lifting of youth minimum wage may be delayed \u2013 UK politics live\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">Politics<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Starmer urged to stick to manifesto following reports lifting of youth minimum wage may be delayed \u2013 UK politics live<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">GMB union tells Labour delaying or halting equalisation to adult rates would be unacceptableUK inflation tumbled to 3% in January, giving a boost to hopes of an early cut in interest rates by the Bank of England. Phillip Inman and Tom Knowles have the story.Graeme Wearden has reaction and analysis on his business live blog. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2026\/feb\/18\/keir-starmer-labour-youth-unemployment-minimum-wage-eluned-morgan-wales-robert-jenrick-reform-conservatives-kemi-badenoch-uk-politics-latest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics Starmer urged to stick to manifesto following reports lifting of youth minimum wage may be delayed \u2013 UK politics live GMB union tells Labour delaying or halting equalisation to adult rates would be unacceptableUK inflation tumbled to 3% in January, giving a boost to hopes of an early cut in interest rates by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":77803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}