{"id":92283,"date":"2026-05-14T08:04:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=92283"},"modified":"2026-05-14T08:04:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:04:02","slug":"labour-past-its-sell-by-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/05\/14\/labour-past-its-sell-by-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour: past its sell-by-date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/14\/theres-a-risk-of-another-liz-truss-moment-city-raises-spectre-of-bond-market-meltdown-again?utm_term=6a05701ef941abdd3f7e286cdb30801f&amp;utm_campaign=BusinessToday&amp;utm_source=esp&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;CMP=bustoday_email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian reports<\/a> this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">If Keir Starmer is toppled, key Labour power brokers believe it wise to keep Rachel Reeves as chancellor, to reassure nervous City investors.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There, in a nutshell, is all you need to know about why Labour should not be governing.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/05\/12\/why-british-politics-no-longer-works-in-seven-words\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I argued earlier this week<\/a>, Labour is now in office to keep bankers and not workers happy. And that is why it needs to go.<\/p>\n<p>Government should never be run for the interests of finance and not people, but Labour now believes the City comes first, proving why it has long since passed its usefulness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Guardian reports this morning: If Keir Starmer is toppled, key Labour power brokers believe it wise to keep Rachel Reeves as chancellor, to<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/05\/14\/labour-past-its-sell-by-date\/\"><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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92283","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=92283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92284,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92283\/revisions\/92284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}