{"id":24358,"date":"2019-03-17T00:04:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T23:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24358"},"modified":"2019-03-17T00:04:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T23:04:08","slug":"so-have-you-been-watching-the-mp-nick-boles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24358","title":{"rendered":"So, have you been watching the MP Nick Boles?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nine months ago, I did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23104\">a blog posting<\/a> about the Member of Parliament Nick Boles and concluded &#8220;He is a man to watch&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This weekend, we had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-47594875\">the news<\/a> of his resignation as the Conservative MP for Grantham &amp; Stamford, although he is likely to continue taking the Conservative whip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We haven&#8217;t heard the last of Boles. He is a leading advocate of a possible solution to the Brexit crisis called Norway Plus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I must say that, in half a century of following British politics, I have never known party affiliations and voting discipline to be more fluid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine months ago, I did a blog posting about the Member of Parliament Nick Boles and concluded &#8220;He is a man to watch&#8221;. This weekend, we had the news of his resignation as the Conservative MP for Grantham &amp; Stamford, although he is likely to continue taking the Conservative whip. We haven&#8217;t heard the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24358","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=24358"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24363,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24358\/revisions\/24363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}