{"id":81,"date":"2006-01-30T22:43:50","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T22:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campbellcampaign.org\/2006\/01\/30\/council-leaders-a-correction\/"},"modified":"2006-01-31T00:54:50","modified_gmt":"2006-01-31T00:54:50","slug":"council-leaders-a-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/2006\/01\/30\/council-leaders-a-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"Council leaders &#8211; a correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the other candidates for leadership has been getting very excited about having the backing of eight council leaders, &#8220;more than the other candidates combined&#8221;.  Sadly, this latter assertion is not true.<\/p>\n<p>Just for the record, at the time of writing, the following ten council leaders are publicly backing Ming Campbell:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cllr Cathy Bakewell, Leader, Somerset County Council<\/li>\n<li>Cllr Gill Ferguson, Leader, Waverley Borough Council<\/li>\n<li>Cllr Cheryl Green, Leader, Bridgend County Borough Council<\/li>\n<li>Cllr Heather Kidd, Leader, South Shropshire District Council <\/li>\n<li>Cllr Simon Partridge, Leader, North Norfolk District Council<\/li>\n<li>Cllr Derek Osbourne, Leader, Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames<\/li>\n<li>Cllr Fraser Reynolds, Leader, Durham City Council<\/li>\n<li>Cllr Paull Robathan, Leader, South Somerset District Council<\/li>\n<li>Cllr Tony Robertson, Leader, Sefton Council<\/li>\n<li>Cllr Gerald Vernon-Jackson, Leader, Portsmouth City Council<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Altogether &#8220;the other candidates combined&#8221; have more than twice as many council leaders supporting them as the candidate who made the original claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the other candidates for leadership has been getting very excited about having the backing of eight council leaders, &#8220;more than the other candidates combined&#8221;. Sadly, this latter assertion is not true. Just for the record, at the time of writing, the following ten council leaders are publicly backing Ming Campbell: Cllr Cathy Bakewell, [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","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=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}