{"id":87011,"date":"2025-10-26T07:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=87011"},"modified":"2025-10-26T07:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:25:13","slug":"starmers-finally-found-what-hes-good-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/26\/starmers-finally-found-what-hes-good-at\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer&#8217;s finally found what he&#8217;s good at"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/oct\/25\/labour-new-deputy-leader-lucy-powell-party-must-pay-more-heed-to-members?utm_term=68fdca774670d3fc1bd79d6b671b41a4&amp;utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&amp;utm_source=esp&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;CMP=GTUK_email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian headline<\/a> this morning says:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-87012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-26-at-07.20.09-550x134.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-26-at-07.20.09-550x134.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-26-at-07.20.09-768x187.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-26-at-07.20.09-600x146.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-26-at-07.20.09.png 1062w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, the news is that Starmer has no intention of giving Lucy Powell a job back in the Cabinet. She might be deputy leader of the party - which made Angela Rayner deputy prime minister - but Powell is to be left on the back benches in an act clearly intended to send a defiant signal to those in Labour who oppose what Starmer is trying to do.<\/p>\n<p>It really does seem that Starmer has only one goal, which is the destruction of the Labour Party. If so, he's very good at it. The trouble is, he shows no talent for absolutely anything else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Guardian headline this morning says: However, the news is that Starmer has no intention of giving Lucy Powell a job back in the Cabinet.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/26\/starmers-finally-found-what-hes-good-at\/\"><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":[118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87011","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=87011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87013,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87011\/revisions\/87013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}