{"id":94124,"date":"2026-07-21T06:45:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=94124"},"modified":"2026-07-21T06:45:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:45:37","slug":"the-progressive-point-we-have-reached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/21\/the-progressive-point-we-have-reached\/","title":{"rendered":"The progressive point we have reached"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want a summary of Andy Burnham\u2019s new government, it is is this.<\/p>\n<p>The top four ministerial posts in the UK are those of Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Those filling these roles are a right wing Muslim women, tied to Blue Labour, who is seemingly out of touch with most in the Labour Party, and three white men, all of whom served as ministers in governments headed by Tony Blair.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the progressive point we have reached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want a summary of Andy Burnham\u2019s new government, it is is this. The top four ministerial posts in the UK are those of<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/21\/the-progressive-point-we-have-reached\/\"><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":[118,224,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labour","category-neoliberalism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94124","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=94124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94126,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94124\/revisions\/94126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}