{"id":48934,"date":"2019-11-05T07:27:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T23:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=48934"},"modified":"2019-11-05T07:30:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T23:30:08","slug":"british-lawmakers-to-elect-new-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=48934","title":{"rendered":"British Lawmakers To Elect New Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LONDON, Nov 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; British lawmakers are scheduled to elect a new speaker of the House of Commons, to succeed John Bercow, who has been in the powerful post for 10 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seven candidates are in the running, including ex-deputy Labour leader, Harriet Harman, and current deputy Speaker, Lindsay Hoyle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The speaker keeps order in the House of Commons debates, and calls members of parliament to speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vote took place at a time when major British political parties are preparing for the general election on Dec 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bercow, who began to run the daily business of the House of Commons in 2009, and kept lawmakers in line with robust cries of &#8220;Order,&#8221; retired last week, after a decade as the speaker.&#8211; NNN-AGENCIES <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, Nov 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; British lawmakers are scheduled to elect a new speaker of the House of Commons, to succeed John Bercow, who has been in the powerful post for 10 years. Seven candidates are in the running, including ex-deputy Labour leader, Harriet Harman, and current deputy Speaker, Lindsay Hoyle. The speaker keeps order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":48936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,286,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48934"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}