{"id":93325,"date":"2026-06-23T07:22:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=93325"},"modified":"2026-06-23T07:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:22:29","slug":"theres-a-reason-why-seven-prime-ministers-have-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/06\/23\/theres-a-reason-why-seven-prime-ministers-have-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a reason why seven prime ministers have failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched a reasonable amount of the news last night.<\/p>\n<p>It kept being said that seven prime ministers in 10 years is unacceptable. Questions were asked. But no one that I saw made the obvious point. Everyone of these people was or is a neoliberal.<\/p>\n<p>And the reality is neoliberalism has failed. Of course, no prime minister can deliver a failed idea. That is impossible. But until that point is made in, and accepted by, the media we are going nowhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched a reasonable amount of the news last night. It kept being said that seven prime ministers in 10 years is unacceptable. Questions were<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/06\/23\/theres-a-reason-why-seven-prime-ministers-have-failed\/\"><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":[35,224,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-neoliberalism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93325","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=93325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93326,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93325\/revisions\/93326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}