{"id":39461,"date":"2017-11-15T08:36:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T08:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=39461"},"modified":"2017-11-15T08:36:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T08:36:50","slug":"one-brexit-for-the-city-of-london-another-for-the-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/11\/15\/one-brexit-for-the-city-of-london-another-for-the-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"One Brexit for the City of London; another for the rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2017\/nov\/14\/david-davis-seeks-reassure-city-transfer-workers-after-brexit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news that the City of London<\/a> is, apparently, to continue to enjoy free movement \u00a0of people after Brexit when the rest of the country will not raises a range of thoughts and questions.<\/p>\n<p>First, and glaringly obviously, how does David Davis know? He seems remarkably ill-informed on almost everything else to do with Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>Second, why? Why this privilege for finance alone? Is he trying to confirm it has a rule apart? And why them? And please do not say it's tax revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Third, is he trying to confirm that this is, indeed, a country where it is only money that really counts ? If so he could not do it better.<\/p>\n<p>Let me be honest; I very much doubt that this is true. But if it is then it's another clear message that post-Brexit Britain will be the deeply divided country the government has always aspired to create.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news that the City of London is, apparently, to continue to enjoy free movement \u00a0of people after Brexit when the rest of the country<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/11\/15\/one-brexit-for-the-city-of-london-another-for-the-rest\/\"><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":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39461","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=39461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}