{"id":36298,"date":"2019-12-13T02:51:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T02:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=36298"},"modified":"2019-12-13T02:51:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T02:51:38","slug":"iain-duncan-smith-holds-chingford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/iain-duncan-smith-holds-chingford\/","title":{"rendered":"Iain Duncan Smith holds Chingford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The one-time Conservative party leader has held onto his north London constituency\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Duncan Smith, 65, has been re-elected as the MP for the seat of Chingford &amp; Woodford Green, seeing off the perceived threat from the Labour party.<\/p>\n<p>The result was a tight one &#8211; the pro-Brexit backbencher having his majority reduced to only 1,262 &#8211; more than 48% of the vote share.<\/p>\n<p>Labour candidate for the Outer London constituency Faiza Shaheen increased the party&#8217;s share of the vote by 1.9% &#8211; a positive swing.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Duncan Smith was first elected as MP for the suburban London seat at the 1992 general election, replacing Norman Tebbit who now sits in the House of Lords &#8211; also an ardent Brexiter &#8211; who served in the Cabinet of Margaret Thatcher.<\/p>\n<p>Former Scots Guard Duncan Smith was Tory leader from 2001 to 2003 and Secretary of State for Work and Pension in the Cabinet of David Cameron from 2010 to 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words: Scott Mathew | Subbing: Michelle Del Rey | Featured image credit: Parliament.uk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Parliamentary copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one-time Conservative party leader has held onto his north London constituency\u00a0 Mr Duncan Smith, 65, has been re-elected as the MP for the seat of Chingford &amp; Woodford Green, seeing off the perceived threat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":36301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}