{"id":36549,"date":"2017-03-10T05:58:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T05:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=36549"},"modified":"2017-03-10T05:59:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T05:59:53","slug":"dont-believe-all-you-read-in-the-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/03\/10\/dont-believe-all-you-read-in-the-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t believe all you read in the papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/03\/09\/revealed-john-mcdonnell-calls-20-per-cent-wealth-tax-richest\/\" target=\"_blank\"> to the Telegraph<\/a>, in 2012 John McDonnell:<\/p>\n<div class=\"articleBodyText section\">\n<div class=\"article-body-text component \">\n<div class=\"component-content\">\n<blockquote><p>advocated placing left-wing economists in key jobs at the Bank of England and HMRC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"articleBodyText section\">\n<div class=\"article-body-text component \">\n<div class=\"component-content\">\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"m_first-letter m_first-letter--flagged\">H<\/span>e said: \"On economic policy in terms of the Bank of England you install people like Graham Turner [...] you must make him the Governor of the Bank of England.<\/p>\n<p>\"You then move on in terms of taxation - you put Richard Murphy and John Christensen at the head of HMRC to introduce Financial Transaction Tax, the wealth tax, the land value tax - all done in the first 100 days.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I strongly suspect he did say such a thing; not that he consulted me on whether I agreed with the suggestions he'd made, which I did not.<\/p>\n<p>No one took any notice then. And I think that the chance he'd appoint me now would be remote in the extreme, even if he had the chance.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn't believe all you read in the papers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Telegraph, in 2012 John McDonnell: advocated placing left-wing economists in key jobs at the Bank of England and HMRC. He said: &#8220;On<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/03\/10\/dont-believe-all-you-read-in-the-papers\/\"><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":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36549","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=36549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}