{"id":13187,"date":"2009-06-05T03:25:32","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T03:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/james_purnell_resignation_shocks_gordon_brown\/"},"modified":"2009-06-05T03:25:32","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T03:25:32","slug":"james_purnell_resignation_shocks_gordon_brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13187","title":{"rendered":"James Purnell resignation shocks Gordon Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Brown was dealt a devastating blow tonight as James Purnell quit the Cabinet and told him to stand down to save the Labour Party.<\/p>\n<p>The Work and Pensions Secretary\u2019s sensational decision, given to the Prime Minister shortly before polling ended in the European and local elections, left an already damaged Mr Brown in grave peril. He told Mr Brown to stand aside and give Labour a \u201cfighting chance of winning\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>The departure of such a talented minister in a crucial reforming role raised immediate questions over whether other ministers would follow, and whether Mr Brown had the authority to complete his Cabinet reshuffle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/politics\/article6434068.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Brown was dealt a devastating blow tonight as James Purnell quit the Cabinet and told him to stand down to save the Labour Party. The Work and Pensions Secretary\u2019s sensational decision, given to the Prime Minister shortly before polling<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13187\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,199,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}