{"id":103037,"date":"2017-05-08T13:55:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T13:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=103037"},"modified":"2017-05-08T13:55:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T13:55:03","slug":"vuelio-general-election-briefing-8th-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/vuelio-general-election-briefing-8th-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Vuelio General Election Briefing 8th May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As the general election gets underway, we\u2019ve compiled all the news, policy announcements, stakeholder reaction and social media analysis to keep you up to date. Arriving in your inbox on Monday, you&#8217;ll have a round-up of the Sunday political shows as well as\u00a0media analysis, so you can get\u00a0the full flavour of how the campaigns are going.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick summary of what happened last week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Conservatives made gains in local elections, while UKIP was left with only one councillor<\/li>\n<li>Theresa May gave a disastrous performance on Marr, only to be overshadowed by Diane Abbott on LBC<\/li>\n<li>Both Labour and the Lib-Dems made tax policy announcements, while the Conservatives announced their first manifesto promise, relating to mental health<\/li>\n<li>The Conservatives have\u00a047% of the vote share based on the most recent polls<\/li>\n<li>The British Chambers of Commerce, British Medical Association and Institute for Government have all released their own manifestos<\/li>\n<li>As we can see below,\u00a0Labour\u2019s pledge to increase police numbers gained the most traction online out of the manifesto announcements so far \u2013 although this is most likely in response to Diane Abbott\u2019s LBC performance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-entry_without_sidebar wp-image-103038\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Reaction-600x423.png\" alt=\"Reaction\" width=\"600\" height=\"423\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/email.vuelio.com\/political-updates\">Sign up to Vuelio Political Updates here and get your free weekly copy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the general election gets underway, we\u2019ve compiled all the news, policy announcements, stakeholder reaction and social media analysis to keep you up to date. Arriving in your inbox on Monday, you&#8217;ll have a round-up &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":102948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3734],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103037"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103222,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103037\/revisions\/103222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}