{"id":75858,"date":"2024-06-04T11:55:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T10:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=75858"},"modified":"2024-06-04T11:55:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T10:55:12","slug":"a-question-for-the-leaders-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/06\/04\/a-question-for-the-leaders-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"A question for the leaders&#8217; debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked this morning to ask for the party leaders' debate this week. I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/EwBS6YyAouo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recorded this video<\/a> whilst having a coffee when editing a chapter this morning:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-75859\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-04-at-11.50.56-550x954.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-04-at-11.50.56-550x954.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-04-at-11.50.56-173x300.png 173w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-04-at-11.50.56-231x400.png 231w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-04-at-11.50.56.png 746w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To watch it, you will have to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/EwBS6YyAouo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">view it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, I should have held the phone higher.<\/p>\n<p>There is no transcript.<\/p>\n<p>The question, however, is simple. It is, what do our party leaders think is more important? Subsidising the pensions of the wealthy, or ending child poverty?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked this morning to ask for the party leaders&#8217; debate this week. I recorded this video whilst having a coffee when editing a<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/06\/04\/a-question-for-the-leaders-debate\/\"><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":[35,122,16,147,106,97,209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-election","category-ethics","category-inequality","category-politics","category-tax-justice","category-taxing-wealth-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75858","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=75858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75860,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75858\/revisions\/75860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}