{"id":984,"date":"2007-06-26T14:59:36","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T13:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/06\/26\/davies-defects\/"},"modified":"2007-06-26T15:02:48","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T14:02:48","slug":"davies-defects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/06\/26\/davies-defects\/","title":{"rendered":"Davies defects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/6239486.stm\">help Ming show<\/a> how close Labour and the Tories are, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quentin_Davies\">Quentin Davies MP<\/a> (who&#8217;s always struck me as a proper old Tory) has defected from the Conservatives to Labour. It&#8217;s in the BBC news ticker &#8211; will link to the story when it appears.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/6241928.stm\">Here it is<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The MP for Grantham and Stamford, made his decision public in a letter to Conservative leader David Cameron. <\/p>\n<p>He wrote that under Mr Cameron the party &#8220;appears to me to have ceased collectively to believe in anything, or to stand for anything&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;It has no bedrock. It exists on shifting sands. A sense of mission has been replaced by a PR agenda.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if to help Ming show how close Labour and the Tories are, Quentin Davies MP (who&#8217;s always struck me as a proper old Tory) has defected from the Conservatives to Labour. It&#8217;s in the BBC news ticker &#8211; will link to the story when it appears. Update: Here it is. 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