{"id":41954,"date":"2019-12-15T22:22:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T22:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41954"},"modified":"2019-12-15T22:22:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T22:22:37","slug":"what-lessons-can-the-us-learn-from-the-british-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41954","title":{"rendered":"What lessons can the US learn from the British election results?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"82\">\n<p>The style of the UK&#8217;s Prime Minister Boris Johnson is frequently compared with that of US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>And now that Johnson has won a resounding victory in the UK&#8217;s general election &#8211; US politicians are paying close attention to what happened.<\/p>\n<p>And it is the Democrats who are mostly concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential candidate Joe Biden blames the left-wing platform of Johnson&#8217;s main opponent, Jeremy Corbyn, for Labour&#8217;s defeat.<\/p>\n<p>And he&#8217;s warning his party against moving too far to the left ahead of the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>He and others argue Britain&#8217;s elections result should serve as a wake up call for their party. But is this really true?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Julie MacDonald<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lincoln Mitchell &#8211; associate research scholar at Columbia University&#8217;s Saltzman Institute<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Gift &#8211; political science lecturer at University College of London<\/p>\n<p>Eric Ham &#8211; political analyst and contributor to the Washington Diplomat newspaper<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The style of the UK&#8217;s Prime Minister Boris Johnson is frequently compared with that of US President Donald Trump. And now that Johnson has won a resounding victory in the UK&#8217;s general election &#8211; US politicians are paying close attention to what happened. And it is the Democrats who are mostly concerned. Presidential candidate Joe&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41954","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=41954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}