{"id":109585,"date":"2017-11-06T12:59:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T12:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=109585"},"modified":"2017-11-10T10:49:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T10:49:52","slug":"politics-on-sunday-5-november-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/politics-on-sunday-5-november-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics on Sunday &#8211; 5 November 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Missed any of the political coverage from the weekend?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After a week when sexual harassment in Westminster has continued to dominate headlines, it\u2019s no surprise that this issue was the focus of Sunday\u2019s political shows. After a flurry of rumours that Whips had been using information about sexual misconduct in order to maintain party discipline, Home Secretary Amber Rudd used her appearances on Marr and Paterson to deny the existence of any such \u2018black book\u2019. Meanwhile, Anna Soubry criticised the &#8216;trial by media&#8217; taking place against MPs in light of a lack of system to investigate claims made against them.<\/p>\n<p>Labour has also been under pressure to explain its response to harassment allegations. Emily Thornberry said she was &#8216;ashamed&#8217; of on-goings in her party after it emerged that Kelvin Hopkins had been promoted to shadow cabinet after claims were made against him, while a young party activist was told not to report her rape at a Labour event.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond sexual harassment, Mark Carney appeared on Peston to discuss the &#8216;Brexit effect&#8217; on the economy, which he claims has lowered the bank&#8217;s predictions for foreign investment in Britain by 20% since the month before the referendum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out our dedicated Canvas of political coverage by <a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.vuelio.co.uk\/democorporate\/sundaypolitics61117#\/walls\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here<\/a> or on the image below. Want to make your own canvas? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/pr-software\/canvas\/?clid=Blog\">Find out how<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.vuelio.co.uk\/democorporate\/sundaypolitics61117#\/walls\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109586\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Canvas-for-politics-6-November.jpg\" alt=\"Canvas for politics 6 November\" width=\"760\" height=\"844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Canvas-for-politics-6-November.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Canvas-for-politics-6-November-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Canvas-for-politics-6-November-635x705.jpg 635w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Canvas-for-politics-6-November-450x500.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Canvas-for-politics-6-November-500x555.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A round up of all the political coverage from Sunday&#8217;s programmes and news in one Canvas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":109831,"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":[7271],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109585"}],"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=109585"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109857,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109585\/revisions\/109857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}