{"id":41655,"date":"2018-05-02T20:49:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T19:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=41655"},"modified":"2018-05-02T20:49:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T19:49:25","slug":"tonights-vital-result-the-lords-10-theresa-may-0-and-in-need-of-substitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/05\/02\/tonights-vital-result-the-lords-10-theresa-may-0-and-in-need-of-substitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight&#8217;s vital result: The Lords 10, Theresa May 0 and in need of substitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/blog\/live\/2018\/may\/02\/pmqs-may-corbyn-brexit-rees-mogg-claims-tory-brexiter-customs-partnership-warning-will-help-may-politics-live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Guardian blog tonight<\/a> (no, not the football one - although I have an eye on that as well):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/05\/02\/tonights-vital-result-the-lords-10-theresa-may-0-and-in-need-of-substitution\/screen-shot-2018-05-02-at-20-43-22\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41656\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-41656\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-02-at-20.43.22-550x409.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-02-at-20.43.22-550x409.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-02-at-20.43.22-403x300.png 403w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-02-at-20.43.22-768x571.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-02-at-20.43.22-538x400.png 538w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-02-at-20.43.22.png 1070w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So Chris (Lord) Patten beat the government in the name of common sense, Irish peace and economic good order whilst May acted like a headless chicken and told her officials to 'go away and do something'.<\/p>\n<p>The Lords amendment on this has\u00a0to be right: nothing else will do and the fact is May knows it and won't admit it.<\/p>\n<p>How much longer is it before we and she are put out of this misery?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Guardian blog tonight (no, not the football one &#8211; although I have an eye on that as well): So Chris (Lord) Patten beat<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/05\/02\/tonights-vital-result-the-lords-10-theresa-may-0-and-in-need-of-substitution\/\"><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-41655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41655","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=41655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}