{"id":53711,"date":"2022-10-20T19:17:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T02:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53711"},"modified":"2022-10-21T10:18:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T17:18:13","slug":"liz-trusss-downfall-sparks-talk-of-democracys-decline-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53711","title":{"rendered":"Liz Truss\u2019s downfall sparks talk of democracy\u2019s decline in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions of democratic legitimacy are swirling in the United Kingdom after the resignation on Thursday of Prime Minister Liz Truss, whose government collapsed just 44 days after she took office.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Truss\u2019s downfall will trigger a second leadership election within the Conservative Party\u2019s 170,000 members to pick a third prime minister for the country of 67 million this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former Prime Minister\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/29445160.30168\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wZW9wbGUvYm9yaXMtam9obnNvbi8_ZW1haWw9YjBiZWZiMmRhZmNlM2E4N2U3ZjEzNmJiMDY1NGRmMDUzZjg0NTNhYyZlbWFpbGE9MWEyNzU3ZTM1ODAwMWJhMjYzMThiMDJiODZmNDEzMTEmZW1haWxiPWMxYjU4OTFlYzgyZGUwOWRiY2Y5NzNhZDQ5NTQ2MDMyZWNlNzk1MGZiM2E3ZTdjYTg2ZGQ5Y2ZjY2FiZTY5YjgmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1TYWlsdGhydSZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj0xMC4yMC4yMiUyMFNQJTIwVGhlJTIwSGlsbCUyME5ld3MlMjBBbGVydCUyMExpeiUyMFRydXNz\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB60279b74\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/29445160.30168\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wZW9wbGUvYm9yaXMtam9obnNvbi8_ZW1haWw9YjBiZWZiMmRhZmNlM2E4N2U3ZjEzNmJiMDY1NGRmMDUzZjg0NTNhYyZlbWFpbGE9MWEyNzU3ZTM1ODAwMWJhMjYzMThiMDJiODZmNDEzMTEmZW1haWxiPWMxYjU4OTFlYzgyZGUwOWRiY2Y5NzNhZDQ5NTQ2MDMyZWNlNzk1MGZiM2E3ZTdjYTg2ZGQ5Y2ZjY2FiZTY5YjgmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1TYWlsdGhydSZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj0xMC4yMC4yMiUyMFNQJTIwVGhlJTIwSGlsbCUyME5ld3MlMjBBbGVydCUyMExpeiUyMFRydXNz\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB60279b74&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1666458196426000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2XYuYoz0NLN6mCMqDLlAXK\">Boris Johnson,<\/a>\u00a0another conservative, resigned in July following revelations that he\u2019d disobeyed the UK\u2019s Covid-19 regulations while the country was on lockdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions of democratic legitimacy are swirling&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53712,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53711\/revisions\/53712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}