{"id":122263,"date":"2019-12-07T14:49:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T13:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/07\/general-election-parties-resume-campaigning-after-leaders-debate-live-updates\/"},"modified":"2019-12-07T14:49:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T13:49:21","slug":"general-election-parties-resume-campaigning-after-leaders-debate-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=122263","title":{"rendered":"General election: parties resume campaigning after leaders&#039; debate \u2013 live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians make their final pitches as the election campaign enters its final week.BBC debate: Corbyn hits out at Johnson\u2019s \u2018racist remarks\u2019Johnson v Corbyn: who won the day?How credible are Corbyn and Johnson\u2019s BBC debate claims? 1.44pm GMT Boris Johnson has abandoned a walkabout in Westhoughton, Lancashire, after about 100 protesters took to the town\u2019s high street along with a large screen with a photo of the prime minister with Donald Trump.\u201cHave they just done the UK\u2019s biggest drug deal?\u201d it asked. Boris Johnson was due to cone to Westhoughton but the visit has been cancelled &#8211; a group of protestors had gathered ahead of his arrival @GranadaReports pic.twitter.com\/5kKbOc6gfuThe police have now arrived and Westhoughton Market is in lockdown after market traders say protestors tried to force their way in @GranadaReports pic.twitter.com\/4EMuY8h4mG 1.10pm GMT Jo Swinson has insisted she would not quit as leader of the Liberal Democrats leader if the party fails to make significant gains in the general election.Asked if she would stand down in such circumstances, Swinson said: No, because I have just been elected as leader of the Liberal Democrats four months ago with an overwhelming majority.We have got more members than we have ever had before and we are running a strong campaign. So, people have got confidence in my leadership and I\u2019m excited to be doing the job. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2019\/dec\/07\/general-election-parties-resume-campaigning-after-leaders-debate-live-updates\" target=\"_blank\">General election: parties resume campaigning after leaders&#039; debate \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians make their final pitches as the election campaign enters its final week.BBC debate: Corbyn hits out at Johnson\u2019s \u2018racist remarks\u2019Johnson v Corbyn: who won the day?How credible are Corbyn and Johnson\u2019s BBC debate claims? 1.44pm GMT Boris Johnson has abandoned a walkabout in Westhoughton, Lancashire, after about 100 protesters [&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-122263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122263","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=122263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}