{"id":48783,"date":"2019-02-19T11:55:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T11:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=48783"},"modified":"2019-02-19T11:55:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T11:55:18","slug":"brex-split-7-lawmakers-quit-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/brex-split-7-lawmakers-quit-labour\/","title":{"rendered":"Brex-split: 7 lawmakers quit Labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-7678\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Labour.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"488\" \/>Seven British lawmakers quit the main opposition Labour Party on Monday over its approach to issues including Brexit and anti-Semitism &#8211; the biggest shake-up in years for one of Britain&#8217;s major political parties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The announcement ripped open a long-simmering rift between socialists and centrists in the party, which sees itself as the representative of Britain&#8217;s working class. It&#8217;s also the latest fallout from Britain&#8217;s decision to leave the European Union, which has split both of the country&#8217;s two main parties &#8211; Conservatives and Labour &#8211; into pro-Brexit and pro-EU camps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many Labour lawmakers have been unhappy with the party&#8217;s direction under leader Jeremy Corbyn, who took charge in 2015. They accuse Corbyn of mounting a weak opposition to Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May&#8217;s plans for leaving the EU, and of failing to stamp out a vein of anti-Semitism in the party.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/brex-split-7-lawmakers-quit-labour\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven British lawmakers quit the main opposition Labour Party on Monday over its approach to issues including Brexit and anti-Semitism &#8211; the biggest shake-up in years for one of Britain&#8217;s major political parties. The announcement ripped open a long-simmering rift between socialists and centrists in the party, which sees itself as the representative of Britain&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48784,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48783\/revisions\/48784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}