{"id":1199,"date":"2008-11-12T20:27:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T19:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2008-11-12T20:27:45","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T19:27:45","slug":"britains-new-consumer-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1199","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s new consumer champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerfocus.org.uk\/en\/content\/cms\/home\/home.aspx\">Consumer Focus<\/a> &#8211; a merger of Postwatch, Energywatch and the National Consumer Council &#8211; only came into operation on 1 October and still has a lot of staff to recruit, but it is already winning respect and making an impact. As a member of the Board, this is very pleasing to me.<br \/>\nYesterday I was at the House of Commons to see the CF Chairman Larry Whitty and Chief Executive Ed Mayo give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliamentlive.tv\/main\/VideoPlayer.aspx?meetingId=2775\">a good account<\/a> of the new organisation to the Business, Enterprise &#038; Regulatory Reform Select Committee. Today the &#8220;Mirror&#8221; newspaper devoted a full page to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/city-news\/2008\/11\/12\/time-to-cut-energy-prices-says-consumer-champion-ed-mayo-115875-20887507\/\">an interview<\/a> with Ed.<br \/>\nI spent this afternoon at the Consumer Focus Head Office in London and I am really enjoying working with an enthusiastic and talented team committed to winning a better deal for the British consumer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumer Focus &#8211; a merger of Postwatch, Energywatch and the National Consumer Council &#8211; only came into operation on 1 October and still has a lot of staff to recruit, but it is already winning respect and making an impact. As a member of the Board, this is very pleasing to me. Yesterday I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}