{"id":58671,"date":"2018-09-16T15:56:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T13:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/09\/16\/lib-dems-must-own-failures-of-coalition-says-jo-swinson\/"},"modified":"2018-09-16T15:56:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T13:56:59","slug":"lib-dems-must-own-failures-of-coalition-says-jo-swinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=58671","title":{"rendered":"Lib Dems must &#039;own failures&#039; of coalition, says Jo Swinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy leader tells party it should have done more to stop policies such as bedroom taxThe Liberal Democrats must \u201cown the failures\u201d of the coalition government, the party\u2019s deputy leader, Jo Swinson, has said, citing the \u201chostile environment\u201d, the bedroom tax and NHS changes as policies she particularly regrets.Swinson, a former business minister tipped as a future leader, said the party had inflicted too high a price on the poorest in society in an attempt to cut the deficit. \u201cI\u2019m proud of what we achieved \u2013 but I\u2019m not naive or blinkered about it,\u201d she told the Lib Dem conference in Brighton on Sunday. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/sep\/16\/lib-dems-must-own-failures-of-coalition-says-jo-swinson\" target=\"_blank\">Lib Dems must &#039;own failures&#039; of coalition, says Jo Swinson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy leader tells party it should have done more to stop policies such as bedroom taxThe Liberal Democrats must \u201cown the failures\u201d of the coalition government, the party\u2019s deputy leader, Jo Swinson, has said, citing the \u201chostile environment\u201d, the bedroom tax and NHS changes as policies she particularly regrets.Swinson, a [&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-58671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58671","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=58671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}