{"id":76161,"date":"2024-06-18T07:19:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T06:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=76161"},"modified":"2024-06-18T07:19:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T06:19:12","slug":"talking-economics-with-the-snp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/06\/18\/talking-economics-with-the-snp\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking economics with the SNP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first of three interviews I have done for the National in Scotland. Each is with the economics spokesperson for a major Scottish pro-independence party. I started with Drew Hendry, who was the spokesperson on economics for the SNP group in Westminster until the election was called. He has a good chance of being back there on 5 July:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Richard Murphy&#039;s economics interviews: The SNP&#039;s Drew Hendry\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X_3wOhaZ-lk?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>The interview was frustrating when it came to taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The admission on the currency was given more readily than I expected: this was not the old leadership line. Is there a hint of change in the air?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first of three interviews I have done for the National in Scotland. Each is with the economics spokesperson for a major Scottish<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/06\/18\/talking-economics-with-the-snp\/\"><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":[35,106,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76161","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=76161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76162,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76161\/revisions\/76162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}