{"id":65314,"date":"2022-10-21T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=65314"},"modified":"2022-10-21T08:12:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T07:12:00","slug":"will-the-next-tory-pm-be-the-last-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/10\/21\/will-the-next-tory-pm-be-the-last-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the next Tory PM be the last ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had just written my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/10\/21\/a-party-that-has-for-four-decades-promoted-the-idea-that-self-interest-is-paramount-is-now-being-destroyed-by-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first post of the day<\/a> (after over-sleeping) when I read a thread from Russ Jones, who has just written a book called 'A decade in Tory'. His analysis is worth sharing:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-65315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-21-at-08.09.02-550x368.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-21-at-08.09.02-550x368.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-21-at-08.09.02-448x300.png 448w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-21-at-08.09.02-768x514.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-21-at-08.09.02-597x400.png 597w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-21-at-08.09.02.png 1460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-65316\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-21-at-08.09.17-550x516.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-21-at-08.09.17-550x516.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-21-at-08.09.17-320x300.png 320w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-21-at-08.09.17-768x720.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-21-at-08.09.17-427x400.png 427w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-21-at-08.09.17.png 1476w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As he then suggested:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-65317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-21-at-08.09.47-550x827.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-21-at-08.09.47-550x827.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-21-at-08.09.47-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-21-at-08.09.47-768x1154.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-21-at-08.09.47-1022x1536.png 1022w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-21-at-08.09.47-1363x2048.png 1363w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-21-at-08.09.47-266x400.png 266w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-21-at-08.09.47.png 1456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That seems like a good analysis to me.<\/p>\n<p>I have little to add, except to differ explanation as to the cause of this, which was in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/10\/21\/a-party-that-has-for-four-decades-promoted-the-idea-that-self-interest-is-paramount-is-now-being-destroyed-by-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my first post of the day<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had just written my first post of the day (after over-sleeping) when I read a thread from Russ Jones, who has just written a<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/10\/21\/will-the-next-tory-pm-be-the-last-ever\/\"><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-65314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65314","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=65314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}