{"id":19239,"date":"2013-01-09T16:36:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T15:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/01\/09\/282648\/tory-minister\/"},"modified":"2013-01-09T16:36:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T15:36:28","slug":"second-british-tory-minister-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/second-british-tory-minister-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Second British Tory minister steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>British Prime Minister David Cameron has faced a fresh setback as he lost his second minister Lord Marland in as many days.<\/p>\n<p>Tory business minister Lord Marland told Cameron of his resignation decision on Tuesday, January 8, a day after the departure of Lord Strathclyde as Leader of the House of Lords.<\/p>\n<p>Marland, 56, said he was frustrated with the grind of Whitehall and prefers to concentrate on business career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has been frustrated by the day-to-day business of government. He also wants to get back to the private sector and there isn\u2019t the time to do that and perform all the duties of a minister at the same time\u201d, a senior government source told <em>The Daily Mail<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Marland\u2019s surprise resignation decision could be seen as a sign of ongoing difficulties within the Conservative Party who spent much of last year fighting with the backbenchers.<\/p>\n<p>MOS\/MOL\/HE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>British Prime Minister David Cameron has faced a fresh setback as he lost his second minister Lord Marland in as many days.<\/p>\n<p>Tory business minister Lord Marland told Cameron of his resignation decision on Tuesday, January 8, a day after the departure of Lord Strathclyde as Leader of the House of Lords.<\/p>\n<p>Marland, 56, said he was frustrated with the grind of Whitehall and prefers to concentrate on business career.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He has been frustrated by the day-to-day business of government. He also wants to get back to the private sector and there isn&rsquo;t the time to do that and perform all the duties of a minister at the same time&rdquo;, a senior government source told <em>The Daily Mail<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Marland&rsquo;s surprise resignation decision could be seen as a sign of ongoing difficulties within the Conservative Party who spent much of last year fighting with the backbenchers.<\/p>\n<p>MOS\/MOL\/HE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}