{"id":34224,"date":"2016-07-30T10:45:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T09:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=34224"},"modified":"2016-07-30T10:45:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T09:45:17","slug":"if-you-want-to-know-why-mps-quit-corbyns-team-read-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/07\/30\/if-you-want-to-know-why-mps-quit-corbyns-team-read-this\/","title":{"rendered":"If you want to know why MPs quit Corbyn&#8217;s team read this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sharon Hodgson MP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharonhodgson.org\/sharon_writes_to_local_labour_party_members_on_her_resignation_and_her_support_for_owen_smith_mp\">has written a telling account <\/a>of why she quit as shadow children's minister in Jeremy Corbyn's shadow team. I recommend it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liliangreenwood.co.uk\/lilian_s_speech_to_nottingham_south_labour_party_members\">She's not the first to have written in this way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What she says echoes what I saw and what I've heard. And confirms that there was no chance of a team lead by Jeremy Corbyn forming an effective opposition.<\/p>\n<p>That I can recall I have never met Sharon.\u00a0She strikes me as precisely the sort of person who might be selected by constituencies to represent them in the future.<\/p>\n<p>And it did not work.<\/p>\n<p>I am sure much unfair comment has been thrown at her as a result. But those doing the throwing need to think hard.<\/p>\n<p>She gave working with Corbyn a good go and could not make it work.<\/p>\n<p>Will his leadership ever work in that case, however much wishful thinking is applied? Or is re-electing him a project doomed to failure that guarantees continued government by Theresa May?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharon Hodgson MP has written a telling account of why she quit as shadow children&#8217;s minister in Jeremy Corbyn&#8217;s shadow team. I recommend it. She&#8217;s<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/07\/30\/if-you-want-to-know-why-mps-quit-corbyns-team-read-this\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}