{"id":66266,"date":"2023-01-08T09:20:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T09:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=66266"},"modified":"2023-01-08T09:36:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T09:36:46","slug":"66266","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/01\/08\/66266\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour should not be attacking GPs unless they too are in the business of undermining the NHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago Wes Streeting, Labour\u2019s shadow health secretary, attacked GPs, saying their finances are murky, in the process obviously seeking to blame them for NHS failings. In the process he threatened to take away the role they have in primary health care.<\/p>\n<p>On Sophy Ridge\u2019s show this morning Starmer joined in the attack. I wrote this Twitter thread in response:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-66268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/345C0705-FBC9-46E8-976A-48F92A8B678B-550x223.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/345C0705-FBC9-46E8-976A-48F92A8B678B-550x223.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/345C0705-FBC9-46E8-976A-48F92A8B678B-768x312.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/345C0705-FBC9-46E8-976A-48F92A8B678B-600x243.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/345C0705-FBC9-46E8-976A-48F92A8B678B.jpeg 1457w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-66269\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/D3470AC8-8711-40A0-9D26-17E96012F029-550x474.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/D3470AC8-8711-40A0-9D26-17E96012F029-550x474.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/D3470AC8-8711-40A0-9D26-17E96012F029-348x300.jpeg 348w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/D3470AC8-8711-40A0-9D26-17E96012F029-768x662.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/D3470AC8-8711-40A0-9D26-17E96012F029-464x400.jpeg 464w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/D3470AC8-8711-40A0-9D26-17E96012F029.jpeg 1394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-66270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/B0811DE8-8701-4C57-A75D-45AD115D92BF-550x435.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/B0811DE8-8701-4C57-A75D-45AD115D92BF-550x435.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/B0811DE8-8701-4C57-A75D-45AD115D92BF-379x300.jpeg 379w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/B0811DE8-8701-4C57-A75D-45AD115D92BF-768x607.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/B0811DE8-8701-4C57-A75D-45AD115D92BF-506x400.jpeg 506w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/B0811DE8-8701-4C57-A75D-45AD115D92BF.jpeg 1438w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>I obviously meant joint and not joking in the first tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago Wes Streeting, Labour\u2019s shadow health secretary, attacked GPs, saying their finances are murky, in the process obviously seeking to blame<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/01\/08\/66266\/\"><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":[35,128,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-nhs","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66266","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=66266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}