{"id":6800,"date":"2010-05-10T17:17:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T15:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=6800"},"modified":"2010-05-10T17:17:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T15:17:49","slug":"is-brown-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/05\/10\/is-brown-going\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Brown going?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2010\/may\/10\/labour-liberal-democrats-conservative-coalition\">Labour prepares to pounce if Liberal Democrat-Conservative coalition talks fail | Politics | guardian.co.uk <\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on Labour\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/labour\">Labour<\/a> is preparing to seize the initiative this afternoon if the Tories and<a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on Liberal Democrats\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/liberaldemocrats\">Liberal Democrats<\/a> fail to reach an agreement over coalition government.<\/p>\n<p>That could involve an announcement before the end of the day about the future of <a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on Gordon Brown\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/gordon-brown\">Gordon Brown<\/a>, who has been considering whether to step down as prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>With the shadow cabinet and Lib Dem MPs meeting separately now, it is being suggested by Labour sources that their party may have something important to say this afternoon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour prepares to pounce if Liberal Democrat-Conservative coalition talks fail | Politics | guardian.co.uk . Labour is preparing to seize the initiative this afternoon if<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/05\/10\/is-brown-going\/\"><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":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800","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=6800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}