{"id":118801,"date":"2019-11-13T14:34:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T13:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/11\/13\/wife-of-disgraced-mp-stands-in-his-former-seat-with-pledge-to-fight-domestic-abuse\/"},"modified":"2019-11-13T14:34:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T13:34:14","slug":"wife-of-disgraced-mp-stands-in-his-former-seat-with-pledge-to-fight-domestic-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=118801","title":{"rendered":"Wife of disgraced MP stands in his former seat with pledge to fight domestic abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Griffiths chosen as Tory candidate for Burton seat vacated by Andrew Griffiths Latest election news \u2013 live updatesThe wife of a minister forced to resign for sexting two female constituents has been selected as the Conservative candidate in her husband\u2019s former seat after pledging to support victims of domestic abuse.Kate Griffiths, whose estranged husband, Andrew Griffiths, resigned from the government for sending 2,000 sexually explicit messages to two women, was chosen as the party\u2019s candidate for the seat of Burton in a shock move on Tuesday night. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2019\/nov\/13\/kate-griffiths-wife-of-disgraced-mp-andrew-griffiths-stands-in-his-former-seat-with-pledge-to-fight-domestic-abuse\" target=\"_blank\">Wife of disgraced MP stands in his former seat with pledge to fight domestic abuse<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Griffiths chosen as Tory candidate for Burton seat vacated by Andrew Griffiths Latest election news \u2013 live updatesThe wife of a minister forced to resign for sexting two female constituents has been selected as the Conservative candidate in her husband\u2019s former seat after pledging to support victims of domestic [&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-118801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118801","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=118801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}