{"id":26527,"date":"2022-10-15T06:40:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T06:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=26527"},"modified":"2022-10-15T06:40:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T06:40:57","slug":"labour-calls-for-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/10\/15\/labour-calls-for-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour calls for general election\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keir Starmer has called for a general election now regardless of whether Liz Truss is ousted by the\u00a0Conservatives, saying the government is \u201ccompletely at the end of the road\u201d and Labour is preparing for power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview with the Guardian, the\u00a0Labour\u00a0leader said Truss had driven the economy \u201cinto a wall\u201d while \u201ctrashing our institutions\u201d, and changing the prime minister again without allowing the country to vote would not be acceptable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Starmer said he had told his shadow cabinet not to be complacent about the party\u2019s 30 points-plus poll lead, and that Labour was \u201cnot going to sit back\u201d but fight for every vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said people were \u201clooking to Labour for the answers to the next election\u201d and the party needed to carry on putting in the work to win the contest, rather than assuming the government\u2019s incompetence would cause the Tories to lose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor the good of the country we need a general election.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keir Starmer has called for a general election now regardless of whether Liz Truss is ousted by the\u00a0Conservatives, saying the government is \u201ccompletely at the end of the road\u201d and Labour is preparing for power. In an interview with the Guardian, the\u00a0Labour\u00a0leader said Truss had driven the economy \u201cinto a wall\u201d while \u201ctrashing our institutions\u201d, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3782,2512,5196,911,2264,11493,8331,1828,324,3874,5840,3174,5076,4890,10415],"class_list":["post-26527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-cabinet","tag-conservatives","tag-economy","tag-election","tag-government","tag-interview","tag-keir-starmer","tag-labour","tag-labour-party","tag-lead","tag-liz-truss","tag-prime-minister","tag-sir-keir-starmer","tag-tories","tag-work"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}