{"id":3617,"date":"2026-04-09T12:41:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/?p=3617"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:55:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:55:26","slug":"voices-if-you-think-westminster-is-a-boring-boys-club-why-not-join-ours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/voices-if-you-think-westminster-is-a-boring-boys-club-why-not-join-ours\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices: If you think Westminster is a boring boys\u2019 club, why not join ours?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018In The Room\u2019, a podcast from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/author\/cleo-watson\"><strong>Cleo Watson<\/strong><\/a>, former deputy chief of staff to Boris Johnson, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/author\/helen-macnamara\"><strong>Helen MacNamara<\/strong><\/a>, deputy cabinet secretary, launches this Friday exclusively from The Independent<em>. <\/em>Here they explain why it\u2019s a must-listen for those who want to cut through the noise in SW1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018In The Room\u2019, a podcast from Cleo Watson, former deputy chief of staff to Boris Johnson, and Helen MacNamara, deputy cabinet secretary, launches this Friday exclusively from The Independent. Here they explain why it\u2019s a must-listen for those who want to cut through the noise in SW1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3618,"href":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions\/3618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}