{"id":4605,"date":"2026-05-15T09:04:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/uk-borrowing-costs-rise-and-pound-falls-as-leadership-drama-continues\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T09:04:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:04:57","slug":"uk-borrowing-costs-rise-and-pound-falls-as-leadership-drama-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/uk-borrowing-costs-rise-and-pound-falls-as-leadership-drama-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"UK borrowing costs rise and pound falls as leadership drama continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK borrowing costs rise and pound falls as leadership drama continues<\/p>\n<p><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ly7KXW.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">&#8220;Overall, UK politics is a mess, there are already signs that foreign buyers are ditching the gilt market. If there is a major rout in the pound and\/or gilts in the coming days, prospective candidates may need to assess whether now was a wise time to make a move against the PM,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Published at Fri, 15 May 2026 09:01:31 +0000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK borrowing costs rise and pound falls as leadership drama continues &#8220;Overall, UK politics is a mess, there are already signs that foreign buyers are ditching the gilt market. If there is a major rout in the pound and\/or gilts in the coming days, prospective candidates may need to assess whether now was a wise&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/uk-borrowing-costs-rise-and-pound-falls-as-leadership-drama-continues\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK borrowing costs rise and pound falls as leadership drama continues<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-politics","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}