{"id":88496,"date":"2025-12-17T06:47:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=88496"},"modified":"2025-12-17T06:47:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:47:51","slug":"is-the-uk-about-to-investigate-trumps-interference-in-uk-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/12\/17\/is-the-uk-about-to-investigate-trumps-interference-in-uk-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the UK about to investigate Trump&#8217;s interference in UK politics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I loved this juxtaposition of two headlines in an FT newsletter last night:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-88497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-16-at-18.55.05-550x173.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-16-at-18.55.05-550x173.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-16-at-18.55.05-768x242.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-16-at-18.55.05-600x189.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-16-at-18.55.05.png 1380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Does that mean the UK is about to investigate Trump's interference in UK politics?<\/p>\n<p>I think not, somehow, even though that might be where the most significant problem now is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved this juxtaposition of two headlines in an FT newsletter last night: Does that mean the UK is about to investigate Trump&#8217;s interference in<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/12\/17\/is-the-uk-about-to-investigate-trumps-interference-in-uk-politics\/\"><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":[14,16,106,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-ethics","category-politics","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88496","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=88496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88498,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88496\/revisions\/88498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}