{"id":10874,"date":"2017-10-15T01:05:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T23:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/15\/philip-hammond-defeatist-eeyore-or-the-measured-voice-of-reason-observer-profile\/"},"modified":"2017-10-15T01:05:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T23:05:15","slug":"philip-hammond-defeatist-eeyore-or-the-measured-voice-of-reason-observer-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=10874","title":{"rendered":"Philip Hammond: defeatist Eeyore or the measured voice of reason? | Observer profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once regarded as a safe pair of hands, his commitment to a soft Brexit has unleashed a furious reaction, with opponents calling him a \u2018saboteur\u2019Of all the characters at the government\u2019s fissiparous top these days, the chancellor, Philip Hammond, looks the least likely to end up at the heart of temper-fraying spats. Box Office Phil was a nickname that came with a bucketload of irony. Nowadays, Hammond has found himself in the middle of a series of toxic dramas defining the government.Accused of something \u201cclose to sabotage\u201d by Nigel Lawson, the pro-Brexit former Tory chancellor, and earning a front page in the Daily Mail and a leader slamming him as a \u201cdismal, defeatist, relentlessly negative\u201d Eeyore, the chancellor inflicted an own goal by calling EU negotiators \u201cthe enemy\u201d. (He has since apologised for the \u201cpoor choice of words\u201d.) Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/oct\/14\/philip-hammond-observer-profile-chancellor-brexit\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Hammond: defeatist Eeyore or the measured voice of reason? | Observer profile<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once regarded as a safe pair of hands, his commitment to a soft Brexit has unleashed a furious reaction, with opponents calling him a \u2018saboteur\u2019Of all the characters at the government\u2019s fissiparous top these days, the chancellor, Philip Hammond, looks the least likely to end up at the heart of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}