{"id":26662,"date":"2012-01-02T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=26662"},"modified":"2012-01-02T09:00:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T14:00:38","slug":"cable-refuses-to-back-knighthood-for-tory-hedge-fund-millionaire-who-made-money-from-fall-of-northern-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2012\/cable-refuses-to-back-knighthood-for-tory-hedge-fund-millionaire-who-made-money-from-fall-of-northern-rock.html","title":{"rendered":"Cable refuses to back knighthood for Tory hedge fund millionaire who made money from fall of Northern Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Daily Mail &#8211; The row over the honour for hedge fund trader and Tory donor Paul Ruddock intensified last night after Business Secretary Vince Cable refused to endorse the award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Asked if he supported David Cameron\u2019s decision to approve Mr Ruddock\u2019s knighthood, a spokesman for Mr Cable would say only: \u2018He does not comment on honours.\u00a0<\/span>The terse response came amid continuing controversy over\u00a0 the award to multi-millionaire\u00a0 Mr Ruddock, who has given more than \u00a3500,000 to Tory funds over the past eight years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2080821\/Cable-refuses-knighthood-Tory-hedge-fund-millionaire-money-fall-Northern-Rock.html?ito=feeds-newsxml\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Mail &#8211; The row over the honour for hedge fund trader and Tory donor Paul Ruddock intensified last night after Business Secretary Vince Cable refused to endorse the award. Asked if he supported David Cameron\u2019s decision to approve Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26664,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26662\/revisions\/26664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}