{"id":84400,"date":"2025-07-27T07:14:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T06:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=84400"},"modified":"2025-07-27T07:14:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T06:14:19","slug":"might-wes-streeting-stop-taking-the-bungs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/27\/might-wes-streeting-stop-taking-the-bungs\/","title":{"rendered":"Might Wes Streeting stop taking the bungs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/drstevetaylor\/status\/1948868724821266623?s=66&amp;t=fQEnD35XLiGihXLT1M1wyA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this Tweet<\/a> was particularly appropriate right now. Maybe Wes Streeting would like to stop living by dual standards:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-84401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-27-at-07.12.21-533x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-27-at-07.12.21-533x1024.png 533w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-27-at-07.12.21-156x300.png 156w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-27-at-07.12.21-768x1476.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-27-at-07.12.21-208x400.png 208w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-27-at-07.12.21.png 774w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this Tweet was particularly appropriate right now. Maybe Wes Streeting would like to stop living by dual standards:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,35,16,87,118,128,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-ethics","category-health","category-labour","category-nhs","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84400","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=84400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84402,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84400\/revisions\/84402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}