{"id":2777,"date":"2017-12-21T11:24:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T11:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canterburypolitics.wordpress.com\/?p=2777"},"modified":"2018-09-07T09:41:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T08:41:24","slug":"new-house-of-commons-briefing-by-cccu-academic-dr-mark-bennister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/2017\/12\/21\/new-house-of-commons-briefing-by-cccu-academic-dr-mark-bennister\/","title":{"rendered":"New House of Commons Briefing by CCCU academic Dr Mark Bennister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Yesterday, British Prime Minister Theresa May made her second appearance before the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/committees\/committees-a-z\/commons-select\/liaison-committee\/\">Liaison Committee<\/a>, a year after her only other appearance.\u00a0These sessions with the Prime Minister have occurred since 2002 and have now become an established part of the scrutiny mechanisms available to Parliament.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Dr Mark Bennister, Reader in Politics at Canterbury Christ Church University and one of only 5 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/get-involved\/education-programmes\/universities-programme\/become-an-academic-fellow-at-the-house-of-commons\/house-of-commons-academic-fellowship-scheme\/\">Parliamentary Fellows in the House of Commons<\/a>, has now produced\u00a0a briefing with the House of Commons Library that sets out the background to the evidence sessions. You can read the full briefing <a href=\"http:\/\/researchbriefings.parliament.uk\/ResearchBriefing\/Summary\/CBP-8182\">by clicking here<\/a> or on the cover page below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, British Prime Minister Theresa May made her second appearance before the Liaison Committee, a year after her only other appearance.\u00a0These sessions with the Prime Minister have occurred since 2002 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161081,"featured_media":3121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,25],"tags":[1137,1393,1445,1665,1825,1841,2193],"class_list":["post-2777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-research","tag-house-of-commons","tag-liaison-committee","tag-mark-bennister","tag-parliamentary-studies","tag-prime-minister","tag-psa","tag-theresa-may"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Anna Vanaga","featuredImage":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/645\/2017\/12\/bennister-liaison-committee-briefing.png","postExcerpt":"Yesterday, British Prime Minister Theresa May made her second appearance before the Liaison Committee, a year after her only other appearance.\u00a0These sessions with the Prime Minister have occurred since 2002 [&hellip;]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3125,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions\/3125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}