{"id":482,"date":"2005-05-09T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-09T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/05\/09\/has-labour-found-its-redwood\/"},"modified":"2005-05-09T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-09T14:18:00","slug":"has-labour-found-its-redwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/05\/has-labour-found-its-redwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Labour found its Redwood?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s early edition Evening Standard (no, I didn&#8217;t buy it, and no, there&#8217;s currently no link to the story on the Standard&#8217;s website) is carrying reports that London Labour backbencher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epolitix.com\/EN\/MPWebsites\/John+Austin\">John Austin<\/a> is considering launching a leadership bid. Not through any belief that he&#8217;s got a chance, but purely to force a proper challenge from some real big hitters.<\/p>\n<p>Potentially interesting. Though let&#8217;s not forget that John Redwood&#8217;s opportunistic leadership bid against John Major in 1995 got precisely nowhere&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s early edition Evening Standard (no, I didn&#8217;t buy it, and no, there&#8217;s currently no link to the story on the Standard&#8217;s website) is carrying reports that London Labour backbencher John Austin is considering launching a leadership bid. Not through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/05\/has-labour-found-its-redwood\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}