{"id":90547,"date":"2026-03-03T07:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=90547"},"modified":"2026-03-03T07:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:54:15","slug":"the-new-political-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/03\/03\/the-new-political-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"The new political landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I offer <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/samcoatessky\/status\/2028712495150485947?s=43\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this Tweet<\/a> from Sam Coates of Sky News, who is one of the most reliable commentators in the British political scene that I think we have right now. He posted it at around 6 am, this morning:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-90548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-03-at-07.50.48-550x561.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-03-at-07.50.48-550x561.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-03-at-07.50.48-294x300.png 294w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-03-at-07.50.48-768x784.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-03-at-07.50.48-392x400.png 392w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-03-at-07.50.48.png 1064w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The poll was taken at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The political scene is being rewritten. That was overdue.<\/p>\n<p>Now it is time to get the economics right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I offer this Tweet from Sam Coates of Sky News, who is one of the most reliable commentators in the British political scene that I<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/03\/03\/the-new-political-landscape\/\"><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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90547","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=90547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90549,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90547\/revisions\/90549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}