{"id":1222,"date":"2009-11-03T02:50:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T02:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2009-11-03T02:50:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T02:50:47","slug":"derry-irvine-on-the-abolision-of-the-office-of-chancellor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1222","title":{"rendered":"Derry Irvine on the abolision of the office of Chancellor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1223\" style=\"width:150px;\">\r\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Tony-Blair-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Tony Blair\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\r\n\t<div>Tony Blair<\/div>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\nFormer Lord Chancellor Derry Irvine has revealed how he was sacked by Tony Blair who tried to abolished the role of Lord Chancellor, six years ago.<\/p>\n<p>He says Mr Blair failed to consult either him or the Queen about the plan and discloses how he struggled over three days to stop Mr Blair firing him.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Blair\u2019s approach was \u2018high-handed and insensitive\u2019<br \/>\nThe whole of Lord Irvine&#8217;s submission to the Lords Committee is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1224430\/How-furious-Derry-Irvine-lashed-incoherent-Blair.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Blair Former Lord Chancellor Derry Irvine has revealed how he was sacked by Tony Blair who tried to abolished the role of Lord Chancellor, six years ago. He says Mr Blair failed to consult either him or the Queen about the plan and discloses how he struggled over three days to stop Mr Blair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}