{"id":2598,"date":"2019-09-04T21:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T21:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2019-09-04T16:12:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T16:12:59","slug":"statement-from-sir-michael-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2598","title":{"rendered":"STATEMENT FROM SIR MICHAEL FALLON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sadly I have decided that this parliament will be my\nlast.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have served as an MP, for both Darlington and Sevenoaks,\nfor more than 30 years \u2013 quite long enough.&nbsp; I want to thank all my\nconstituents for their support and encouragement.&nbsp; Wendy and I will\ncontinue to live in the constituency and to be involved locally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If an immediate election is called, I will not therefore be a candidate.\u00a0 My letter to my Conservative Chairman is attached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Statement-from-Sir-Michael-Fallon-September-2019-1-pdf-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2600\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly I have decided that this parliament will be my last.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have served as an MP, for both Darlington and Sevenoaks, for more than 30 years \u2013 quite long enough.&nbsp; I want to thank all my constituents for their support and encouragement.&nbsp; Wendy and I will continue to live in the constituency and to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2598\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;STATEMENT FROM SIR MICHAEL FALLON&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2601,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions\/2601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}