{"id":168,"date":"2006-02-15T21:11:48","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T21:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campbellcampaign.org\/2006\/02\/15\/ming-campbell-understands-the-need-to-tackle-the-over-concentration-of-power-in-westminster\/"},"modified":"2006-02-15T22:27:37","modified_gmt":"2006-02-15T22:27:37","slug":"ming-campbell-understands-the-need-to-tackle-the-over-concentration-of-power-in-westminster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/2006\/02\/15\/ming-campbell-understands-the-need-to-tackle-the-over-concentration-of-power-in-westminster\/","title":{"rendered":"Ming Campbell understands the need to tackle the over concentration of power in Westminster."},"content":{"rendered":"

Readers of the Guardian’s letters pages<\/a> may have noticed the following letter from Liberal Democrat council leaders across the UK backing Ming Campbell<\/a>: <\/p>\n

\nDear Sir,<\/p>\n

We are Liberal Democrat Leaders of Councils from across the country. <\/p>\n

Despite the many obituaries written for our party over the last few weeks the stunning result in the Dunfermline by-election has demonstrated the potential for further advances.<\/p>\n

Now the party must decide who is best able to realise that potential and lead us to further success. We are backing Ming Campbell as the best candidate to lead our party forward. We believe that he has the experience, judgement and credibility necessary to capitalise on the by-election and galvanise the party with a clear sense of purpose.<\/p>\n

Ming Campbell understands the need to tackle the over concentration of power in Westminster. Giving power back to local communities and trusting them to take the decisions that affect their lives stands in stark contrast to Labour and Conservative.<\/p>\n

Ming Campbell has the leadership qualities needed to unite our party and provide the principled liberal opposition to both Brown and Cameron as they fight over the Blair inheritance.<\/p>\n

We urge local party members to give him their wholehearted backing.<\/p>\n

Yours faithfully<\/p>\n

Cllr Cathy Bakewell,
\nLeader of Somerset County Council<\/p>\n

Cllr Gill Ferguson,
\nLeader of Waverly Borough Council<\/p>\n

Cllr Cheryl Green,
\nLeader of Bridgend District Council<\/p>\n

Cllr Brian Greenslade,
\nLeader of Devon County Council<\/p>\n

Cllr Heather Kidd,
\nLeader of South Shropshire District Council <\/p>\n

Cllr John Morrison,
\nLeader of East Dunbartonshire Council<\/p>\n

Cllr Derek Osbourne,
\nLeader of Royal Borough of Kingston<\/p>\n

Cllr Simon Partridge,
\nLeader of North Norfolk District Council<\/p>\n

Cllr Paull Robathan,
\nLeader of South Somerset District Council<\/p>\n

Cllr Tony Robertson,
\nLeader of Sefton Council<\/p>\n

Cllr Andrew Smith,
\nLeader of Chichester District Council<\/p>\n

Cllr Mike Storey,
\nFormer Leader of Liverpool City Council<\/p>\n

Cllr Gerald Vernon-Jackson,
\nLeader of Portsmouth City Council\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Readers of the Guardian’s letters pages may have noticed the following letter from Liberal Democrat council leaders across the UK backing Ming Campbell: Dear Sir, We are Liberal Democrat Leaders of Councils from across the country. Despite the many obituaries written for our party over the last few weeks the stunning result in the Dunfermline […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}