{"id":141,"date":"2010-08-07T08:28:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T07:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/?p=141"},"modified":"2010-08-07T08:28:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T07:28:35","slug":"william-hague-not-to-address-lib-dem-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"William Hague not to address Lib Dem Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mail-LD-Conf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-143\" title=\"mail LD Conf\" src=\"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mail-LD-Conf-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mail-LD-Conf-300x189.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mail-LD-Conf.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>William Hague (or any other senior Tories) will not be addressing the Liberal Democrat Autumn Conference in Liverpool next month.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libdemvoice.org\/no-official-hague-invite-to-lib-dem-conference-20616.html\">Liberal Democrat Voice<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A party spokesman said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;William Hague is not part of the conference agenda and I can confirm that he has not been asked to speak at the Liberal Democrat conference. No Conservative ministers have ever been approached to speak at our conference.<\/p>\n<p>Fringe events are still being finalised, and it is of course possible that an independent group may have invited Mr Hague to speak at their Fringe event.&#8221;&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>This is in response to the Dail Mail&#8217;s assertion that,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;William Hague is being lined up to speak at the Liberal Democrats&#8217; annual conference next month in a move designed to cement relations between the coalition partners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which just goes to prove (again) that you can&#8217;t believe <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">anything<\/span> everything you read in the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Daily Mail<\/span> papers.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libdemvoice.org\/no-official-hague-invite-to-lib-dem-conference-20616.html\">Lib DemVoice<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/liberalengland.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/william-hague-to-address-next-months.html\">Liberal England<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Hague (or any other senior Tories) will not be addressing the Liberal Democrat Autumn Conference in Liverpool next month. According to Liberal Democrat Voice, &#8216;A party spokesman said: &#8220;William Hague is not part of the conference agenda and I can confirm that he has not been asked to speak at the Liberal Democrat conference. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6dbnw-2h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}