{"id":35,"date":"2006-01-15T14:01:27","date_gmt":"2006-01-15T14:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campbellcampaign.org\/2006\/01\/15\/a-liberal-democrat-you-can-imagine-sitting-in-a-cabinet\/"},"modified":"2006-01-15T23:14:42","modified_gmt":"2006-01-15T23:14:42","slug":"a-liberal-democrat-you-can-imagine-sitting-in-a-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/2006\/01\/15\/a-liberal-democrat-you-can-imagine-sitting-in-a-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"“A Liberal Democrat you can imagine sitting in a cabinet.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an excellent article about the leadership election by Andrew Rawnsley<\/a> in this Sunday’s Observer.<\/p>\n

The stability, authority and unity candidate is Sir Menzies Campbell. It is a testimony to the respect in which he is held that he enjoys the support of so many MPs as well as two former leaders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For a Conservative party trying to rejuvenate its appeal, it made huge sense to select a young leader. The Lib Dems’ problem is their credibility gap. There is a strong case that, for them, an older leader is precisely what they need to convey gravitas.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Authority and certainty seem to me to be a powerful asset in a fluxing and risk-strewn political environment for the third party.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an excellent article about the leadership election by Andrew Rawnsley in this Sunday’s Observer. The stability, authority and unity candidate is Sir Menzies Campbell. It is a testimony to the respect in which he is held that he enjoys the support of so many MPs as well as two former leaders. For a Conservative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","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=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}