{"id":74622,"date":"2024-03-16T07:33:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T07:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=74622"},"modified":"2024-03-16T07:33:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T07:33:11","slug":"the-tories-have-gone-nuclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/03\/16\/the-tories-have-gone-nuclear\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tories have gone nuclear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I liked this from <a href=\"https:\/\/politicshomecom.cmail19.com\/t\/t-e-ejjidtl-dlsvthr-r\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Payne at Politics Home<\/a> this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many Conservative MPs will\u00a0remember this \"bleak\" week as the moment when they truly gave up any hope of avoiding defeat to Labour\u00a0at the next general election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething has changed for me this week,\" said one veteran Conservative MP.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe have done absolutely everything possible to lose the next election,\" they said. \"We've\u00a0gone nuclear.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That seems about right.<\/p>\n<p>Gove, Hester, Sunak, and total humiliation on all fronts. Their game is over.<\/p>\n<p>We really do need a general election,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I liked this from Adam Payne at Politics Home this morning: Many Conservative MPs will\u00a0remember this &#8220;bleak&#8221; week as the moment when they truly gave<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/03\/16\/the-tories-have-gone-nuclear\/\"><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":[96,14,122,16,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-corruption","category-election","category-ethics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74622","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=74622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74623,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74622\/revisions\/74623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}