{"id":92286,"date":"2026-05-14T13:19:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=92286"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:36:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:36:39","slug":"starmer-v-streeting-there-is-only-one-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/05\/14\/starmer-v-streeting-there-is-only-one-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer v Streeting: there is only one choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My postman, John, and I had a conversation this morning, as we have talked many times over the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>Our topic? Who might lead Labour. We came to pretty much this conclusion:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-92287\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-14-at-13.11.58-550x761.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-14-at-13.11.58-550x761.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-14-at-13.11.58-217x300.png 217w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-14-at-13.11.58-289x400.png 289w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-14-at-13.11.58.png 744w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He put Burnham above Miliband. I did it the other way around.<\/p>\n<p>Thereafter, our ranking was the same.<\/p>\n<p>Our mutual loathing of Wes Streeting was agreed upon. We were absolutely agreed that Starmer was better than Streeting. It is good to see the Labour membership agree.<\/p>\n<p>He might have chosen to trigger this election, but I sincerely hope he comes last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My postman, John, and I had a conversation this morning, as we have talked many times over the past decade. Our topic? Who might lead<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/05\/14\/starmer-v-streeting-there-is-only-one-choice\/\"><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-92286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92286","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=92286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92291,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92286\/revisions\/92291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}