{"id":89967,"date":"2026-02-12T08:34:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=89967"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:34:49","slug":"keir-starmer-the-broken-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/12\/keir-starmer-the-broken-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer: the broken promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is occasionally worth reminding oneself about promises made in the past and then forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>These were the pledges made by Keir Starmer to become leader of the Labour Party:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-89968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-12-at-07.07.26-550x552.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-12-at-07.07.26-550x552.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-12-at-07.07.26-299x300.png 299w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-12-at-07.07.26-768x770.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-12-at-07.07.26-399x400.png 399w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-12-at-07.07.26.png 1244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What have we got?<\/p>\n<p>None of those things.<\/p>\n<p>We have, instead, a dying Labour Party superating the stench of rotteness from every one of its remaining pores.<\/p>\n<p>Some legacy and proof that breaking promises can have consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is occasionally worth reminding oneself about promises made in the past and then forgotten. These were the pledges made by Keir Starmer to become<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/12\/keir-starmer-the-broken-promises\/\"><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":[14,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89967","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=89967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89969,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89967\/revisions\/89969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}