{"id":109303,"date":"2019-09-08T01:49:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T23:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/09\/08\/amber-rudd-quits-cabinet-and-attacks-pm-for-political-vandalism\/"},"modified":"2019-09-08T01:49:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T23:49:28","slug":"amber-rudd-quits-cabinet-and-attacks-pm-for-political-vandalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=109303","title":{"rendered":"Amber Rudd quits cabinet and attacks PM for &#039;political vandalism&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work and pensions secretary also leaves parliamentary Conservative party and sends excoriating letter to No 10Boris Johnson\u2019s government was in danger of imploding last night as the work and pensions secretary, Amber Rudd, dramatically quit the cabinet and resigned the Conservative whip, saying should could not \u201cstand by\u201d while \u201cloyal moderate MPs\u201d were purged from the party.In a devastating resignation letter, she accused the prime minister of \u201can assault on decency and democracy\u201d and \u201can act of political vandalism\u201d for sacking 21 of her Tory colleagues for backing a parliamentary bill to stop a no-deal Brexit. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2019\/sep\/07\/amber-rudd-resigns-from-cabinet-and-surrenders-conservative-whip\" target=\"_blank\">Amber Rudd quits cabinet and attacks PM for &#039;political vandalism&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work and pensions secretary also leaves parliamentary Conservative party and sends excoriating letter to No 10Boris Johnson\u2019s government was in danger of imploding last night as the work and pensions secretary, Amber Rudd, dramatically quit the cabinet and resigned the Conservative whip, saying should could not \u201cstand by\u201d while \u201cloyal [&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-109303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109303","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=109303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}