{"id":187,"date":"2006-02-22T13:00:58","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campbellcampaign.org\/2006\/02\/22\/shirley-williams-ming-is-widely-admired-for-his-judgement-his-wisdom-and-his-thoughtful-championing-of-fundamental-freedoms\/"},"modified":"2006-02-24T02:45:40","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T02:45:40","slug":"shirley-williams-ming-is-widely-admired-for-his-judgement-his-wisdom-and-his-thoughtful-championing-of-fundamental-freedoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/2006\/02\/22\/shirley-williams-ming-is-widely-admired-for-his-judgement-his-wisdom-and-his-thoughtful-championing-of-fundamental-freedoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Shirley Williams: Ming is widely admired for his judgement, his wisdom and his thoughtful championing of fundamental freedoms."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.campbellcampaign.org\/wp-content\/images\/shirley_williams.jpg\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Baroness Williams of Crosby\" title=\"Baroness Williams of Crosby\" \/>I am supporting Ming Campbell to become leader of our Party.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal Democrats can celebrate the commitment, talent and hard work of our MPs and peers. These qualities will take us much further given time and experience. Ming Campbell is the leader we need to guide us through the challenging years ahead. Years in which security and liberty need to be carefully balanced, years in which we need to mobilise people of all races and religions to reject violence while seeking greater social justice here and in the world beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Ming is widely admired for his judgement, his wisdom and his thoughtful championing of fundamental freedoms. He refuses to play the game of spin. He deserves our support.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you will give him your 1st preference vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am supporting Ming Campbell to become leader of our Party. Liberal Democrats can celebrate the commitment, talent and hard work of our MPs and peers. These qualities will take us much further given time and experience. Ming Campbell is the leader we need to guide us through the challenging years ahead. Years in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-endorsement","category-peer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","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=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}