{"id":105968,"date":"2017-08-11T09:33:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T09:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=105968"},"modified":"2017-08-11T09:33:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T09:33:05","slug":"should-boris-johnson-be-jailed-david-davis-ex-chief-of-staff-thinks-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/should-boris-johnson-be-jailed-david-davis-ex-chief-of-staff-thinks-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Boris Johnson be jailed? David Davis\u2019 ex Chief of Staff thinks so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The former Chief of Staff to David Davis has taken to Twitter in a scathing attack of the Government\u2019s Brexit strategy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>James Chapman, who was also George Osborne\u2019s director of communications and now works at Bell Pottinger, has roundly criticised both the Leave campaign and the Government for the way they have embarked upon Brexit. His decision to question ministers on Twitter shows another example of the social media site\u2019s increasing role as a place for discussion with and between politicians.<\/p>\n<p>One of Chapman\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jameschappers\/status\/895309901215526913\">more striking tweets<\/a> was his suggestion that those who had been involved in the Leave campaign should be jailed: \u2018Let\u2019s be honest, if we had an effective electoral law leading Brexiteers would now be in jail. #wheresmy350maweekboris.\u2019 His outburst drew the ire of Nigel Farage, who questioned which side Chapman was \u2018really working for in the Brexit department\u2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hello <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LiamFox\">@LiamFox<\/a>. Is Brexit deal going to be totally straightforward or harder than the Moon landings as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DExEUgov\">@DExEUgov<\/a> says? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/confused?src=hash\">#confused<\/a> ??\u2764\ufe0f??<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Chapman (@jameschappers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jameschappers\/status\/895543920469344257\">August 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/aug\/09\/brexit-political-party-james-chapman-david-davis\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking to the Guardian<\/a>, Chapman explained he took to Twitter because the \u2018clock is ticking\u2019 on Brexit, and felt the fear of \u2018being called saboteurs, wreckers and people defying the \u201cwill of the people\u201d\u2019 had left the frontbenches of the main parties \u2018paralysed\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>While Chapman no longer works for the Conservatives, his close work with cabinet members shows the extent to which Brexit is dominating, and splitting, the party which is very much known for towing the line when it comes to public outcries. That this new type of politics is playing out not in the newspapers, but on social media, shows just how much times have changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Chief of Staff to David Davis has taken to Twitter in a scathing attack of the Government\u2019s Brexit strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":105969,"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":[7272,3694,3734],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105968"}],"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=105968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105973,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105968\/revisions\/105973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}