{"id":123055,"date":"2019-12-13T02:49:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T01:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/13\/leavers-have-put-their-trust-in-johnson-but-can-he-really-repay-it-rafael-behr\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T02:49:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T01:49:37","slug":"leavers-have-put-their-trust-in-johnson-but-can-he-really-repay-it-rafael-behr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=123055","title":{"rendered":"Leavers have put their trust in Johnson. But can he really repay it? | Rafael Behr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new breed of Tory voters will have economic, social and cultural expectations that the party is ill-equipped to provideThe voters who appear to have propelled Boris Johnson back into Downing Street have not so much endorsed the Conservative party as conjured up a new party to wear the old Tory colours. There are plenty more results to come in, but the capture of Blyth Valley, Workington and Darlington by candidates in a blue rosette might well stand out as emblematic moments at the start of a grim night for Labour.The Northumberland seat has been off limits for Conservative challengers for generations. It was protected by a 7,915 majority, yet that electoral barricade fell. Notably, the Brexit party candidate took another 3,394 votes, suggesting a voracious enough local appetite for leaving the EU to elect Johnson\u2019s man, and have a few loose ballot papers for squandering on Nigel Farage\u2019s also-ran candidate. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/dec\/13\/leavers-have-put-their-trust-in-johnson-but-can-he-really-repay-it\" target=\"_blank\">Leavers have put their trust in Johnson. But can he really repay it? | Rafael Behr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new breed of Tory voters will have economic, social and cultural expectations that the party is ill-equipped to provideThe voters who appear to have propelled Boris Johnson back into Downing Street have not so much endorsed the Conservative party as conjured up a new party to wear the old [&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-123055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123055","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=123055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}