{"id":38189,"date":"2014-01-27T12:29:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T12:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=e2c9bb3093037008dbe975eb6e1d699c"},"modified":"2014-01-27T12:29:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T12:29:39","slug":"press-release-press-briefing-afternoon-22-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=38189","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Press briefing: afternoon 22 January"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"syrian-refugees\">Syrian refugees<\/h2>\n<p>Asked whether more Syrian refugees would come to Britain, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said the government was listening to arguments about how we can help the most vulnerable people in the refugee camps.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether the government had shifted policy in relation to admitting Syrian refugees, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said it hadn\u2019t. The government have already provided \u00a3600 million in aid to the region and has accepted over a thousand asylum cases. He added that the UK has a long tradition of responding to hardship cases. The government was in contact with a number of organisations who are supporting refugees in the region to discuss the best ways to help the most vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether more refugees could arrive in UK within the next few weeks, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said the government was actively looking at how to respond to cases of extreme hardship.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"eu\">EU<\/h2>\n<p>Asked whether the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\">PM<\/abbr> would use Davos to outline Britain\u2019s position on Europe, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said that the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\">PM<\/abbr>\u2019s approach to reforming the EU was well known and that he would continue to make the case for a more flexible and more competitive Europe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister\u2019s Spokesperson (PMS) answered questions on Syrian refugees and the European Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}