{"id":31069,"date":"2015-10-30T07:46:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T07:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=31069"},"modified":"2015-10-30T07:46:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T07:46:31","slug":"the-lords-most-definitely-did-their-job-properly-in-rejecting-tax-credit-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/10\/30\/the-lords-most-definitely-did-their-job-properly-in-rejecting-tax-credit-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lords most definitely did their job properly in rejecting Tax Credit reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The supposed constitutional crisis resulting from the House of Lords asking the Commons to reconsider Tax Credit reform began to look rather like a fabricated storm in a teacup yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2015\/oct\/29\/tax-credit-cuts-face-major-mitigation-as-tory-mps-fear-they-go-too-far\" target=\"_blank\">Tory MP after Tory MP took the opportunity<\/a> provided by the Lords to say that Tax Credit reform should be deferred it became very obvious that the Lords had been exactly what they are meant to be - a revising body with the power to ask the Commons to think again on issues that are important.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase 'crisis, what crisis?' might have been coined for the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Only the occupants of Downing Street might think otherwise at present, but it's another issue on which they may need to think again in that case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The supposed constitutional crisis resulting from the House of Lords asking the Commons to reconsider Tax Credit reform began to look rather like a fabricated<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/10\/30\/the-lords-most-definitely-did-their-job-properly-in-rejecting-tax-credit-reform\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}