{"id":607,"date":"2019-10-29T15:30:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T15:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.johnwhittingdale.co.uk\/?p=607"},"modified":"2021-08-18T08:05:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T08:05:53","slug":"early-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=607","title":{"rendered":"Early General Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"g316.3\" class=\"debate-speech\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 40px 0px; direction: ltr; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: #e4e2dc; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">\n<div class=\"full-page__row\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; max-width: 63.33333em; width: auto; position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"full-page__unit\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 17.09375px; direction: ltr; width: 1140px; float: left;\">\n<div class=\"debate-speech__speaker-and-content\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; width: 663.484375px; float: left;\">\n<h2 class=\"debate-speech__speaker\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 70px; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 600; color: #222222; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1em; font-size: 1.4em; position: relative;\"><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #4faded; line-height: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/mp\/?p=10632\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: none; max-width: 50px; height: auto; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; float: left; margin-right: 10px; position: absolute; left: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/images\/mps\/10632.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo of John Whittingdale\"><span class=\"debate-speech__speaker__name\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;\">John Whittingdale<\/span>&nbsp;<small class=\"debate-speech__speaker__position\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.119999885559082px; line-height: 1em; color: #9d9195; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px; max-width: 36em;\">Conservative, Maldon<\/small><\/a><\/h2>\n<div class=\"debate-speech__content\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.66em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 70px; direction: ltr; font-size: 1em;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;\">My right hon. Friend raises an important point. There is an essential democratic process that needs to be conducted before a&nbsp;<a class=\"glossary\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #4faded; line-height: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;\" title=\"In a general election, each constituency chooses an MP to represent it by...\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/glossary\/?gl=178\">general election<\/a>, which is the selection of candidates. I suspect quite a large number of constituencies have not yet selected candidates. Members of local associations need these extra few days to have time to go through that process, and to avoid having candidates imposed from the centre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"debate-speech__meta debate-speech__links\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; list-style-position: outside; font-family: inherit; float: right; width: 331.734375px; text-align: right;\">\n<li class=\"link-to-speech\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; display: block;\"><span class=\"link-to-speech__label\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; color: #b5acaf;\">Link to this speech<\/span><a class=\"link debate-speech__meta__link\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #9d9195; line-height: 18px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/debates\/?id=2019-10-29b.290.3#g316.3\">In context<\/a>&nbsp;<a class=\"link debate-speech__meta__link\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; 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margin: 0px; padding: 40px 0px; direction: ltr; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: #e4e2dc; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">\n<div class=\"full-page__row\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; max-width: 63.33333em; width: auto; position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"full-page__unit\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 17.09375px; direction: ltr; width: 1140px; float: left;\"><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #4faded; line-height: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;\" name=\"g316.4\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"debate-speech__speaker-and-content\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; width: 663.484375px; float: left;\">\n<h2 class=\"debate-speech__speaker\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 70px; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 600; color: #222222; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1em; font-size: 1.4em; position: relative;\"><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #4faded; line-height: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/mp\/?p=10580\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: none; max-width: 50px; height: auto; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; float: left; margin-right: 10px; position: absolute; left: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/images\/mps\/10580.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo of Desmond Swayne\"><span class=\"debate-speech__speaker__name\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;\">Desmond Swayne<\/span>&nbsp;<small class=\"debate-speech__speaker__position\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.119999885559082px; line-height: 1em; color: #9d9195; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px; max-width: 36em;\">Conservative, New Forest West<\/small><\/a><\/h2>\n<div class=\"debate-speech__content\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.66em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 70px; direction: ltr; font-size: 1em;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;\">We have had two Divisions in recent weeks on whether there should be an election, so I would have thought that those associations ought properly to have attended to the question of getting on with selecting candidates. I am sorry to hear that they have not, but there is not much that we can do about that. Certainly, the additional days would be of some assistance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Whittingdale&nbsp;Conservative, Maldon My right hon. Friend raises an important point. There is an essential democratic process that needs to be conducted before a&nbsp;general election, which is the selection of candidates. I suspect quite a large number of constituencies have not yet selected candidates. Members of local associations need these extra few days to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speeches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","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=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}