{"id":119985,"date":"2024-08-23T11:39:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T11:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/23\/former-conservative-mp-delwyn-williams-dies-aged-85\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T11:39:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T11:39:09","slug":"former-conservative-mp-delwyn-williams-dies-aged-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/23\/former-conservative-mp-delwyn-williams-dies-aged-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Conservative MP Delwyn Williams dies aged 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/6386\/live\/ff8e30b0-613e-11ef-8c32-f3c2bc7494c6.jpg?fit=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Former Conservative MP Delwyn Williams dies aged 85\" title=\"Former Conservative MP Delwyn Williams dies aged 85\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Former Conservative Montgomeryshire MP Delwyn Williams has died at the age of 85.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">He broke 99 years of Liberal Party control in the constituency with his victory over <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-mid-wales-17124536\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">Emlyn Hooson<!-- --><\/a> in 1979.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">He lost the seat to Liberal Alex Carlile at the following general election, in 1983.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Also a solicitor and company director, Welsh Conservative President and ex-Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies described him as having a &#8220;larger than life personality&#8221; that was &#8220;impossible not to like&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c9qgnpyz4wgo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Conservative Montgomeryshire MP Delwyn Williams has died at the age of 85. He broke 99 years of Liberal Party control in the constituency with his victory over Emlyn Hooson in 1979. He lost the seat to Liberal Alex Carlile at the following general election, in 1983. Also a solicitor and company director, Welsh Conservative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/6386\/live\/ff8e30b0-613e-11ef-8c32-f3c2bc7494c6.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[5406,9450,97684,16,6965],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119987,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119985\/revisions\/119987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}