{"id":32447,"date":"2019-02-19T09:53:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T09:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32447"},"modified":"2019-02-19T09:53:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T09:53:17","slug":"chaos-in-uk-politics-as-labour-mps-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32447","title":{"rendered":"Chaos in UK politics as Labour MPs quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London (CNN)<\/cite>A new schism opened up in British politics on Monday when seven lawmakers staged a dramatic walkout from Britain&#8217;s opposition Labour Party, denouncing its handling of a wave of anti-Semitism and a &#8220;betrayal&#8221; on Brexit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The seven Members of Parliament, many of them longstanding figures in the party, said variously that Labour was racist, had betrayed its working-class roots and was a threat to national security. Its leader, Jeremy Corbyn, was not fit to become Prime Minister, they said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">One of the seven, Luciana Berger, said she had become ashamed of the party she&#8217;d served as a Member of Parliament since 2010. It had become &#8220;hijacked by the machine politics of the hard left,&#8221; she said.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN)A new schism opened up in British politics on Monday when seven lawmakers staged a dramatic walkout from Britain&#8217;s opposition Labour Party, denouncing its handling of a wave of anti-Semitism and a &#8220;betrayal&#8221; on Brexit.The seven Members of Parliament, many of them longstanding figures in the party, said variously that Labour was racist, had&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}