{"id":75514,"date":"2024-05-17T07:10:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T06:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=75514"},"modified":"2024-05-17T07:10:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T06:10:42","slug":"can-keir-starmer-be-trusted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/05\/17\/can-keir-starmer-be-trusted\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Keir Starmer be trusted?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video comes from an interview between Beth Rigby of Sky News and Keir Starmer yesterday, posted by them to YouTube:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sir Keir Starmer insists he is &#039;trustworthy&#039; after launching six pledges to voters\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q-5bdP4tFBo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Beth Rigby does three things.<\/p>\n<p>She asks Starmer if he can be trusted.<\/p>\n<p>She then demonstrates that by abandoning all the pledges he made to become Labour leader he cannot be.<\/p>\n<p>She then treats with disdain Starmer\u2019s claim that almost nothing has changed.<\/p>\n<p>And she was absolutely right to do so. Starmer has u-turned on all his promises to deliver a package that is shockingly, and one has to presume, deliberately mundane, as if the death of democratic politics by suffocating it with indifference might be his aim.<\/p>\n<p>Nor was Beth Rigby alone in doing this. Robert Peston was appropriately challenging for ITV. I did not see Chris Mason fur the BBC, because who cares what he asks?<\/p>\n<p>Beth Rigby\u2019s very obvious conclusion, that Starmer is not trustworthy, is right.<\/p>\n<p>Our democracy is in a terrible place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video comes from an interview between Beth Rigby of Sky News and Keir Starmer yesterday, posted by them to YouTube: Beth Rigby does three<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/05\/17\/can-keir-starmer-be-trusted\/\"><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":[122,16,118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-ethics","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75514","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=75514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75515,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75514\/revisions\/75515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}