{"id":83853,"date":"2025-07-10T06:49:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T05:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=83853"},"modified":"2025-07-10T06:49:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T05:49:26","slug":"what-is-wrong-with-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/10\/what-is-wrong-with-labour\/","title":{"rendered":"What is wrong with Labour?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/Lords\/2025-07-08\/debates\/8B0F26B4-F6E5-43D4-A1C3-2D3020E30176\/details#contribution-112B391E-227A-416D-B0E2-DD3A1720B0A7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exchange took place in the Lords<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-83854\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-09-at-19.07.33-550x678.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-09-at-19.07.33-550x678.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-09-at-19.07.33-243x300.png 243w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-09-at-19.07.33-768x947.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-09-at-19.07.33-1246x1536.png 1246w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-09-at-19.07.33-324x400.png 324w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-09-at-19.07.33.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/03\/labour-the-best-friend-business-opacity-has-got\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">referred to this issue<\/a> a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Prem Sikka got none of the assurances he sought to ensure that small companies will be made properly accountable in the UK to support our honest small businesses and ensure tax is paid.<\/p>\n<p>What is wrong with Labour? Are they really so keen on winning the support of those who abuse the law that anything goes with them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This exchange took place in the Lords on Tuesday. I referred to this issue a few days ago. Prem Sikka got none of the assurances<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/10\/what-is-wrong-with-labour\/\"><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":[67,26,138,14,204,35,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountancy","category-accounting","category-companies-house","category-corruption","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83853","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=83853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83856,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83853\/revisions\/83856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}