{"id":3465,"date":"2024-04-09T09:15:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T09:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=3465"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:58:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:58:42","slug":"sir-john-whittingdale-mp-for-maldon-shares-with-his-constituents-a-comprehensive-guide-on-the-role-of-an-mp-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=3465","title":{"rendered":"You and Your MP &#8211; a comprehensive guide on the role of an MP in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3465\" class=\"elementor elementor-3465\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-56435022 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"56435022\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-28321b34 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"28321b34\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p><br \/><br \/>This leaflet breaks down the role of an MP in all four corners of the UK, it explains their role in Parliament, the extent of their power to affect change for their constituents and how constituents can contact them.<\/p>\n\n<p>Please interact with the leaflet below and scroll down to read its full contents.<br \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 2000px;\" data=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/You-and-Your-MP.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" aria-label=\"Embed of You-and-Your-MP.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-ab9e575b-a2a4-48e5-9afd-4d93c1e67ba5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/You-and-Your-MP.pdf\">You-and-Your-MP<\/a><a class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/You-and-Your-MP.pdf\" download=\"\" aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-ab9e575b-a2a4-48e5-9afd-4d93c1e67ba5\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This leaflet breaks down the role of an MP in all four corners of the UK, it explains their role in Parliament, the extent of their power to affect change for their constituents and how constituents can contact them. Please interact with the leaflet below and scroll down to read its full contents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-john","category-john-in-parliament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3465"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4917,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions\/4917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}