{"id":120829,"date":"2019-11-27T14:53:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T13:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/11\/27\/ex-tory-minister-questions-parties-pledges-on-devolution\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T14:53:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T13:53:17","slug":"ex-tory-minister-questions-parties-pledges-on-devolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=120829","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Tory minister questions parties&#039; pledges on devolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim O\u2019Neill, backer of \u2018northern powerhouse\u2019, says he may stop \u2018wasting so much time on this\u2019Politics live \u2013 election latestA former Conservative minister who was one of the key architects of the \u201cnorthern powerhouse\u201d has questioned whether either of the main parties are genuinely committed to devolving powers out of Whitehall.Jim O\u2019Neill, a former Goldman Sachs banker who served as commercial secretary to the Treasury in David Cameron\u2019s government, said the Conservative manifesto was \u201cstriking for having very little detail in it\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2019\/nov\/27\/ex-tory-minister-questions-parties-pledges-on-devolution\" target=\"_blank\">Ex-Tory minister questions parties&#039; pledges on devolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim O\u2019Neill, backer of \u2018northern powerhouse\u2019, says he may stop \u2018wasting so much time on this\u2019Politics live \u2013 election latestA former Conservative minister who was one of the key architects of the \u201cnorthern powerhouse\u201d has questioned whether either of the main parties are genuinely committed to devolving powers out 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-120829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120829","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=120829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}