{"id":43166,"date":"2018-09-25T08:21:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T07:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=43166"},"modified":"2018-09-25T08:21:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T07:21:10","slug":"who-is-the-most-pro-business-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/09\/25\/who-is-the-most-pro-business-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is the most pro-business party?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have long argued that tax justice is the most pro-business economic policy going. Now it is core Labour policy. But that\u2019s not all that\u2019s pro-business about Labour. As the Times Red Box email put it this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Labour have not learnt the lessons of the past, the Tories insist. But perhaps they have not learnt the lessons of the present.<\/p>\n<p>By the time the Conservatives have finished saying \"f*** business\" and pursuing an ideological Brexit which many firms warn will be somewhere between inconvenient and utterly destructive, they might wake up to find that Labour has won the argument.<\/p>\n<p>A decade after the crash, for which those responsible paid little price, voters might be happy to let Labour do the business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s The Times saying that.<\/p>\n<p>The Tories are in trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have long argued that tax justice is the most pro-business economic policy going. Now it is core Labour policy. But that\u2019s not all that\u2019s<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/09\/25\/who-is-the-most-pro-business-party\/\"><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":[96,118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43166","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=43166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}