{"id":90529,"date":"2026-03-02T18:23:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=90529"},"modified":"2026-03-02T18:23:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:23:45","slug":"its-not-that-those-on-the-left-lack-principles-the-whole-point-is-they-have-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/03\/02\/its-not-that-those-on-the-left-lack-principles-the-whole-point-is-they-have-them\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not that those on the left lack principles. The whole point is, they have them."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This YouGov poll, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/YouGov\/status\/2028519860716622204\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued in the last hour<\/a>, shows how out of touch Reform and its supporters are with the majority of people in the UK on issues such as the war on Iran:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-90530\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-02-at-18.17.47-550x646.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-02-at-18.17.47-550x646.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-02-at-18.17.47-256x300.png 256w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-02-at-18.17.47-768x901.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-02-at-18.17.47-341x400.png 341w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-02-at-18.17.47.png 1036w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Tories are also well out of line with the national mood.<\/p>\n<p>It's not that those on the left lack principles. The whole point is, they have them. This is the gulf war playing out -here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This YouGov poll, issued in the last hour, shows how out of touch Reform and its supporters are with the majority of people in the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/03\/02\/its-not-that-those-on-the-left-lack-principles-the-whole-point-is-they-have-them\/\"><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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90529","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=90529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90531,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90529\/revisions\/90531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}