{"id":47118,"date":"2024-05-09T18:05:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T18:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/09\/watch-elphicke-apologises-to-ex-husbands-victims\/"},"modified":"2024-05-09T18:05:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T18:05:09","slug":"watch-elphicke-apologises-to-ex-husbands-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/09\/watch-elphicke-apologises-to-ex-husbands-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Elphicke apologises to ex-husband&#8217;s victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/4929\/production\/_133292781_p0hx2w1w.jpg?fit=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Watch: Elphicke apologises to ex-husband&#8217;s victims\" title=\"Watch: Elphicke apologises to ex-husband&#8217;s victims\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MP Natalie Elphicke &#8211; who defected from the Tories to Labour &#8211; has apologised for comments she made supporting her ex-husband after he was convicted of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Charlie Elphicke was found guilty of sexually assaulting two women in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some Labour MPs had raised concerns about her saying he was &#8220;an easy target&#8221; for false allegations because he was &#8220;attractive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Dover MP joined the Labour Party on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-68987088\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MP Natalie Elphicke &#8211; who defected from the Tories to Labour &#8211; has apologised for comments she made supporting her ex-husband after he was convicted of sexual assault. Charlie Elphicke was found guilty of sexually assaulting two women in 2020. Some Labour MPs had raised concerns about her saying he was &#8220;an easy target&#8221; for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47119,"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\/4929\/production\/_133292781_p0hx2w1w.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[2598,46902,36322,5544,1579],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47118"}],"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=47118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47120,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47118\/revisions\/47120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}