{"id":5519,"date":"2010-05-11T18:20:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T23:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5519"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:30:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:30:37","slug":"cameron-new-british-p-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/05\/11\/cameron-new-british-p-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron new British P.M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5520\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/05\/David-Cameron-British-P.M.-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"David Cameron - British P.M.\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/05\/David-Cameron-British-P.M.-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/05\/David-Cameron-British-P.M..jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/>Conservative Party leader<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/davidcameron\"> David Cameron<\/a> is the <a title=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gIyoVfJW4ioohKsaBifoZdcQoHRwD9FKS8OG0\" target=\"_blank\">new<\/a> British Prime Minister\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0at 43, the youngest in nearly 200 years.\u00a0 Cameron took over after Labour Party leader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/gordon-brown\">Gordon Brown<\/a> resigned, his party having been unable to form a coalition government with the smaller Liberal Democrat party after none of the three won a Parliamentary majority in last week&#8217;s voting.\u00a0 Political science Professor <a title=\"Graham Wilson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/people\/faculty\/professorgrahamwilson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Wilson<\/a>, author of &#8220;<em><a title=\"Only in America? American Politics in Comparative Perspective\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cqpress.com\/product\/Only-in-America-The-Politics.html\" target=\"_blank\">Only in America? American Politics in Comparative Perspective<\/a><\/em>,&#8221; says the obvious pairing politically would have been with Labour and\u00a0Liberal Democrats, but that was being viewed as a coalition of the losers because the Conservatives actually won more seats.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;So it will be the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. It&#8217;s hard to see this partnership lasting long.\u00a0 This is an implausible coalition.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Graham Wilson, 617-353-2540, <a href=\"mailto:gkwilson@bu.edu\">gkwilson@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative Party leader David Cameron is the new British Prime Minister\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0at 43, the youngest in nearly 200 years.\u00a0 Cameron took over after Labour Party leader Gordon Brown resigned, his party having been unable to form a coalition government with the smaller Liberal Democrat party after none of the three won a Parliamentary majority in last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[1101,2729,2730,1102,2845,2728,2727,2726],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5519"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7752,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519\/revisions\/7752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}