{"id":189174,"date":"2010-05-10T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T01:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/10\/gordo-out\/"},"modified":"2010-05-10T20:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T01:18:00","slug":"gordo-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/10\/gordo-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordo Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Brown has announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/politics\/election_2010\/8672859.stm\">he is stepping down as head of the Labour Party<\/a>, which should improve Labour&#8217;s chances of forming a coalition with the Lib-Dems and the small fry parties:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Gordon Brown has announced he will step down as Labour leader by September &#8211; as his party opens formal talks with the Lib Dems about forming a government.<\/p>\n<p>The PM&#8217;s continued presence in Downing Street was seen as harming Labour&#8217;s chances of reaching a deal.<\/p>\n<p>Labour and the Tories are both trying to woo the Lib Dems with promises on electoral reform as the battle to run the country reaches its critical phase. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Still, we are in for a time of minority government, with either Labour or the Tories in the lead, and no small amount of instability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Brown has announced that he is stepping down as head of the Labour Party, which should improve Labour&#8217;s chances of forming a coalition with the Lib-Dems and the small fry parties: Gordon Brown has announced he will step down as Labour leader by September &#8211; as his party opens formal talks with the Lib &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,984],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}