{"id":29717,"date":"2025-01-05T08:22:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T08:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/05\/the-uk-does-have-a-special-relationship-but-its-with-europe-william-keegan\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T08:22:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T08:22:54","slug":"the-uk-does-have-a-special-relationship-but-its-with-europe-william-keegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/05\/the-uk-does-have-a-special-relationship-but-its-with-europe-william-keegan\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK does have a special relationship \u2013 but it\u2019s with Europe | William Keegan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government is only deceiving itself by trying to \u2018make Brexit work\u2019 and forlornly pursuing a trade deal with Trump<\/p>\n<p>Walter Scott knew a thing or two: \u201cOh what a tangled web we weave\/When first we practise to deceive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In many ways, however, Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves and their colleagues were deceiving themselves when apparently deceiving the electorate on the subject of taxation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/jan\/05\/the-uk-does-have-a-special-relationship-but-its-with-europe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is only deceiving itself by trying to \u2018make Brexit work\u2019 and forlornly pursuing a trade deal with Trump Walter Scott knew a thing or two: \u201cOh what a tangled web we weave\/When first we practise to deceive.\u201d In many ways, however, Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves and their colleagues were deceiving themselves when apparently &#8230; <a title=\"The UK does have a special relationship \u2013 but it\u2019s with Europe | William Keegan\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/05\/the-uk-does-have-a-special-relationship-but-its-with-europe-william-keegan\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The UK does have a special relationship \u2013 but it\u2019s with Europe | William Keegan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}