{"id":774,"date":"2014-07-23T09:32:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T08:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=774"},"modified":"2014-07-23T09:32:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T08:32:34","slug":"camerons-reshuffle-building-an-election-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"Cameron&#8217;s reshuffle &#8211; building an election machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was out with the old, in with the new in London last\u00a0week, as British Prime Minister David Cameron carried out a major cabinet reshuffle. Trusted old hands like the Foreign Secretary William Hague made space for young, female faces alongside a few extra Eurosceptics. Shuffling the political decks often signal changes to government policies, but this time it\u2019s all about getting ready for a good fight at next year\u2019s general elections. Here&#8217;s my report for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.de\/major-uk-government-reshuffle-as-cameron-looks-to-2015-elections\/a-17787054\">Deutsche Welle Radio<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ab-player\" style=\"background-color: transparent;\" data-boourl=\"https:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/2345598-cameron-s-hokey-pokey\/embed\/v2?eid=AQAAAHNwz1N-yiMA\" data-boowidth=\"100%\" data-maxheight=\"150\" data-iframestyle=\"background-color:transparent; display:block; box-shadow:0 0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15); min-width:349px; max-width:700px;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_775\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/10_Downing_Street._MOD_45155532.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-775\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-775\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/10_Downing_Street._MOD_45155532-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"Revolving door: number 10 Downing Street\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/10_Downing_Street._MOD_45155532-300x173.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/10_Downing_Street._MOD_45155532-1024x593.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Revolving door: number 10 Downing Street<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/2345598-cameron-s-hokey-pokey\">listen to \u2018Cameron&#8217;s Hokey Pokey\u2019 on Audioboo<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function() { var po = document.createElement(\"script\"); po.type = \"text\/javascript\"; po.async = true; po.src = \"https:\/\/d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net\/cdn\/embed.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was out with the old, in with the new in London last\u00a0week, as British Prime Minister David Cameron carried out a major cabinet reshuffle. Trusted old hands like the Foreign Secretary William Hague made space for young, female faces alongside a few extra Eurosceptics. Shuffling the political decks often signal changes to government policies, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}