{"id":64941,"date":"2022-09-30T09:41:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T08:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=64941"},"modified":"2022-09-30T09:41:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T08:41:08","slug":"the-tories-are-now-the-most-rightwing-governing-party-in-the-developed-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/09\/30\/the-tories-are-now-the-most-rightwing-governing-party-in-the-developed-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tories are now the most rightwing governing party in the developed world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just tweeted this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From the FT this morning. The Tories are now the most right-wing ruling party in the developed world and are completely out of step even with their own voters  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rkPAbJzOcE\">https:\/\/t.co\/rkPAbJzOcE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uBoxC7d6H3\">pic.twitter.com\/uBoxC7d6H3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardJMurphy\/status\/1575766938411831297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>These are the charts:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-64942\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-30-at-09.35.54-550x351.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-30-at-09.35.54-550x351.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-30-at-09.35.54-471x300.png 471w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-30-at-09.35.54-768x490.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-30-at-09.35.54-600x383.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-30-at-09.35.54.png 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-64943\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-30-at-09.36.04-550x565.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-30-at-09.36.04-550x565.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-30-at-09.36.04-292x300.png 292w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-30-at-09.36.04-768x789.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-30-at-09.36.04-389x400.png 389w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-30-at-09.36.04.png 1158w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is really quite staggering, but explains a great deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just tweeted this: From the FT this morning. The Tories are now the most right-wing ruling party in the developed world and are<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/09\/30\/the-tories-are-now-the-most-rightwing-governing-party-in-the-developed-world\/\"><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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64941","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=64941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}