{"id":69738,"date":"2023-05-10T08:45:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T07:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=69738"},"modified":"2023-05-10T08:45:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T07:45:37","slug":"its-time-the-king-gave-up-his-royal-exemptions-from-uk-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/05\/10\/its-time-the-king-gave-up-his-royal-exemptions-from-uk-law\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time the king gave up  his royal exemptions from UK law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend, Clive Lewis MP, has a petition on the <a href=\"https:\/\/actionnetwork.org\/petitions\/rule-out-royal-exemptions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Action Network<\/a> today, which he explains as follows:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-69739\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-10-at-08.39.40-377x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"377\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-10-at-08.39.40-377x300.png 377w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-10-at-08.39.40-550x438.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-10-at-08.39.40-768x612.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-10-at-08.39.40-502x400.png 502w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-10-at-08.39.40.png 1338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The letter he is asking people to endorse is as follows (and as you can see, I have done that):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-69740\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-10-at-08.39.51-550x292.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-10-at-08.39.51-550x292.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-10-at-08.39.51-768x408.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-10-at-08.39.51-600x319.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-10-at-08.39.51.png 1344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am not much into clicktivism these days, but I think this is good work by Clive and is worth supporting because it makes a simple demand of the new king, which I suspect many here would agree with.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/actionnetwork.org\/petitions\/rule-out-royal-exemptions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You can sign on here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend, Clive Lewis MP, has a petition on the Action Network today, which he explains as follows: The letter he is asking people to<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/05\/10\/its-time-the-king-gave-up-his-royal-exemptions-from-uk-law\/\"><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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69738","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=69738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69741,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69738\/revisions\/69741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}