{"id":40776,"date":"2019-09-08T13:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T13:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40776"},"modified":"2019-09-08T13:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T13:22:24","slug":"amber-rudd-resigns-from-uk-cabinet-says-she-cant-support-boris-johnsons-political-vandalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40776","title":{"rendered":"Amber Rudd resigns from UK cabinet, says she can&#8217;t support Boris Johnson&#8217;s &#8216;political vandalism&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Senior Conservative lawmaker Amber Rudd has resigned as the UK&#8217;s Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, accusing <a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/09\/07\/europe\/boris-johnson-options-brexit-gbr-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Prime Minister Boris Johnson<\/a> of an assault on democracy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Her resignation will come as a blow to Johnson, after <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/09\/05\/europe\/jo-johnson-boris-brother-resigns-intl-gbr\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">his brother Jo Johnson<\/a> resigned on Thursday saying he was &#8220;torn between family loyalty and the national interest.&#8221; Former Conservative MP Phillip Lee also defected to the Liberal Democrats during Prime Minister&#8217;s Questions on Wednesday.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Rudd posted her letter to the Prime Minister on Twitter Saturday night, saying she could not &#8220;stand by as good, loyal moderate Conservatives are expelled&#8221; which she called an &#8220;assault on decency and democracy.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Senior Conservative lawmaker Amber Rudd has resigned as the UK&#8217;s Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson of an assault on democracy.Her resignation will come as a blow to Johnson, after his brother Jo Johnson resigned on Thursday saying he was &#8220;torn between family loyalty and the national interest.&#8221; Former&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40776","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\/40776","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=40776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}