{"id":58393,"date":"2017-06-08T07:26:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T11:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=58393"},"modified":"2017-06-08T07:26:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T11:26:03","slug":"hedge-fund-veterans-take-on-tories-in-u-k-anti-brexit-heartland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2017\/hedge-fund-veterans-take-on-tories-in-u-k-anti-brexit-heartland.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Veterans Take on Tories in U.K. Anti-Brexit Heartland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Chris Coghlan loves a challenge. He joined a hedge fund just as the global financial crisis was getting into full swing. Then he took a job with the U.K. Foreign Office\u2019s counter-terrorism unit. Now he wants to reverse Brexit. The 36-year-old is campaigning as an independent in the southwest London neighborhood of Battersea, where about three-quarters of voters opposed leaving the European Union in last year\u2019s referendum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t accept that because 52 percent voted to leave, that\u2019s a fixed outcome,\u2019\u2019 Coghlan said, referring to the national margin. \u201cYou can only complain for so long before doing something about it.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/articles\/2017-06-07\/hedge-fund-veterans-take-on-tories-in-u-k-anti-brexit-heartland\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Chris Coghlan loves a challenge. He joined a hedge fund just as the global financial crisis was getting into full swing. Then he took a job with the U.K. Foreign Office\u2019s counter-terrorism unit. Now he wants to reverse Brexit. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58393","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58394,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58393\/revisions\/58394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}