{"id":60101,"date":"2024-05-27T20:06:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T20:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/27\/former-west-midlands-mayor-andy-street-rules-out-mp-election-bid\/"},"modified":"2024-05-27T20:06:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T20:06:58","slug":"former-west-midlands-mayor-andy-street-rules-out-mp-election-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/27\/former-west-midlands-mayor-andy-street-rules-out-mp-election-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Former West Midlands mayor Andy Street rules out MP election bid"},"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\/5e1a\/live\/0a05a3a0-1c5e-11ef-b22f-81e7edf9188a.jpg?resize=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Former West Midlands mayor Andy Street rules out MP election bid\" title=\"Former West Midlands mayor Andy Street rules out MP election bid\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">He admitted the role of an MP &#8220;has just never been for me&#8221; and that he would find it &#8220;extremely difficult to step back&#8221; from being an executive leader.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Before his loss, Mr Street had been mayor of the West Midlands since 2017. Previous to his political career he had a successful time in retail, and was managing director of John Lewis and Partners.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">While he admitted in his statement many would assume he was &#8220;destined to go back into business&#8221;, Mr Street said he felt he still could contribute as a leader in public life.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;I look forward to exploring opportunities to do just that,&#8221; he added.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/czrrevdj73po\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He admitted the role of an MP &#8220;has just never been for me&#8221; and that he would find it &#8220;extremely difficult to step back&#8221; from being an executive leader. Before his loss, Mr Street had been mayor of the West Midlands since 2017. Previous to his political career he had a successful time in retail, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60102,"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\/5e1a\/live\/0a05a3a0-1c5e-11ef-b22f-81e7edf9188a.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[23403,8192,50,8270,40399,899,476,6501],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60101"}],"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=60101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60103,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60101\/revisions\/60103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}