{"id":1648,"date":"2014-04-12T10:13:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T10:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2014-04-13T10:19:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T10:19:42","slug":"uk-scandal-hit-minister-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/uk-scandal-hit-minister-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"UK scandal-hit minister resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Maria<\/a>British Prime Minister David Cameron suffered a blow to his authority on Wednesday when a scandal-hit minister he had been doggedly defending resigned, exposing him to charges of weak leadership and poor judgment.
\nMaria Miller, Britain\u2019s minister for culture, stepped down after a backlash against her expenses claims disrupted efforts by Cameron and his ruling Conservative party to woo voters ahead of European Parliament elections next month. Cameron\u2019s party is expected to finish a humiliating third in the European ballot behind the surging anti-EU UK Independence party (UKIP) whose leader had accused Cameron of making a \u201ccatastrophic\u201d error of judgment by failing to sack Miller.
\nConservative lawmakers had also begun to fret that the Miller imbroglio was damaging their party\u2019s image and its hopes of winning a national election in 2015.
\nUKIP, which has styled itself as an anti-establishment party, had seized upon the case of Miller, who gave a perfunctory 32-second public apology last week, as an example of how remote and venal the country\u2019s political elite is.<\/p>\n

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