{"id":82588,"date":"2025-05-23T17:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T16:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=82588"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T16:32:09","slug":"labour-really-are-total-bastards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/05\/23\/labour-really-are-total-bastards\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour really are total bastards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a headline in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/may\/23\/no-10-delays-child-poverty-plan-despite-tens-of-thousands-more-hardship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a> this afternoon:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-82589\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1642-550x406.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1642-550x406.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1642-406x300.jpeg 406w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1642-541x400.jpeg 541w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1642.jpeg 628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The report says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Labour\u2019s flagship child poverty strategy has been delayed until at least the autumn amid concerns at the top of government that the financial cost of key proposals outweighs the political benefit, even though tens of thousands more children will fall into poverty as a result.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">They added:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">[T]he Guardian has been told that the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, and Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer\u2019s chief of staff, have pushed the strategy back to at least the autumn budget and possibly later. Reeves is understood to be concerned about the cost implications while McSweeney has questioned the political benefits.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I have one reaction.<\/p>\n<p>They are total bastards.<\/p>\n<p>No other description is appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a headline in The Guardian this afternoon: The report says: Labour\u2019s flagship child poverty strategy has been delayed until at least the autumn<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/05\/23\/labour-really-are-total-bastards\/\"><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":[14,204,35,16,147,118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-ethics","category-inequality","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82588","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=82588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82591,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82588\/revisions\/82591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}