{"id":43144,"date":"2018-09-24T07:22:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T06:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=43144"},"modified":"2018-09-24T07:22:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T06:22:16","slug":"with-apologies-to-the-labour-fringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/09\/24\/with-apologies-to-the-labour-fringe\/","title":{"rendered":"With apologies to the Labour Fringe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am aware that I am listed as speaking at a Labour Fringe event at lunchtime today.\u00a0I have to offer my apologies. I have to be at a meeting with my family later today that means I cannot be in Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the first Labour Party conference I will have missed for some time. It also exudes the sense that it may be an important one. I hope so. The UK needs alternative thinking. And as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/sep\/24\/can-labour-forge-socialism-21st-century-conference-liverpool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Harris argues in the Guradian<\/a> this morning, that thinking needs to be both radical, and rooted in the possible. I believe that is possible. That is why I suggested a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/09\/23\/the-radical-tax-policies-id-be-looking-for-if-we-had-a-general-election-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">range of tax policies<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am aware that I am listed as speaking at a Labour Fringe event at lunchtime today.\u00a0I have to offer my apologies. I have to<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/09\/24\/with-apologies-to-the-labour-fringe\/\"><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":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43144","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=43144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}