{"id":33833,"date":"2016-06-24T18:49:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T17:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=33833"},"modified":"2016-06-24T18:49:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T17:49:55","slug":"brexit-is-a-tory-party-accident-that-was-never-meant-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/06\/24\/brexit-is-a-tory-party-accident-that-was-never-meant-to-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit is a Tory party accident that was never meant to happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brexit was not on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>David Cameron did not expect to win in 2015. He thought Nick Clegg would save him from his promise on a referendum. But Cameron won and Clegg lost.<\/p>\n<p>When he became Prime Minister he realised he would have to deliver. But he thought his colleagues would save from Farage. But Johnson and Gove did\u00a0not.<\/p>\n<p>It is now obvious Gove and Johnson had no expectation of, or plan for, \u00a0winning. But they did all the same.<\/p>\n<p>No one in the Conservative Party expected that they would deliver \u00a0Brexit.\u00a0But they did.<\/p>\n<p>What does that say about their judgement? And whether they should nominate the next prime minister without that being voted on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brexit was not on the agenda. David Cameron did not expect to win in 2015. He thought Nick Clegg would save him from his promise<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/06\/24\/brexit-is-a-tory-party-accident-that-was-never-meant-to-happen\/\"><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":[96,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33833","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=33833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}