{"id":2707,"date":"2024-03-17T22:26:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T22:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/17\/reform-leader-pulling-your-leg-over-labour-defections\/"},"modified":"2024-03-17T22:26:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T22:26:01","slug":"reform-leader-pulling-your-leg-over-labour-defections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/17\/reform-leader-pulling-your-leg-over-labour-defections\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform leader &#8216;pulling your leg&#8217; over Labour defections"},"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\/0620\/production\/_132886510_p0hhy186.jpg?resize=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Reform leader &#8216;pulling your leg&#8217; over Labour defections\" title=\"Reform leader &#8216;pulling your leg&#8217; over Labour defections\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Claims that Labour MPs could swap to the Reform Party have been dismissed by the shadow Paymaster General.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jonathan Ashworth said Reform leader Richard Tice was &#8220;pulling your leg&#8221; when saying Labour MPs could defect to his party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It came after former Conservatives Party deputy chairman Lee Andersson, who had been suspended, became Reform&#8217;s first MP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-68532602\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Ex-Tory MP Lee Anderson defects to Reform<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claims that Labour MPs could swap to the Reform Party have been dismissed by the shadow Paymaster General. Jonathan Ashworth said Reform leader Richard Tice was &#8220;pulling your leg&#8221; when saying Labour MPs could defect to his party. It came after former Conservatives Party deputy chairman Lee Andersson, who had been suspended, became Reform&#8217;s first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2708,"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\/0620\/production\/_132886510_p0hhy186.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[4802,843,1891,4801,4800,1793],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707"}],"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=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2709,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions\/2709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}