{"id":264981,"date":"2022-11-07T08:24:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T08:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=264981"},"modified":"2022-11-07T08:52:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T08:52:53","slug":"gavin-williamson-hit-by-fresh-claim-of-tacit-threat-to-female-mp-about-private-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/gavin-williamson-hit-by-fresh-claim-of-tacit-threat-to-female-mp-about-private-life","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Williamson hit by fresh claim of &#8216;tacit threat&#8217; to female MP about private life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cabinet minister Gavin Williamson has been accused of making a tacit threat by raising a sensitive issue about a female Tory MP&#8217;s private life in a meeting. A fellow Tory minister is said to have claimed that Mr Williamson mentioned an issue about her private life in 2016 in a bid to silence her when he was chief whip and she was a backbencher. The MP &#8211; who was campaigning on an issue causing problems for the government at the time &#8211; interpretated the conversation as a threat, according to The Times . Allies of Mr Williamson denied any threat, telling the newspaper he had only raised the personal issue in &#8220;pastoral capacity&#8221; as chief whip at the time. But the MP has raised the matter with the Conservative party, following the row over the WhatsApp messages Mr Williamson sent to ex-chief whip Wendy Morton in which he claimed she had tried to &#8220;f*** us all over&#8221;. Rishi Sunak has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabinet minister Gavin Williamson has been accused of making a tacit threat by raising a sensitive issue about a female Tory MP&#8217;s private life in a meeting.A fellow Tory minister<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}