{"id":43807,"date":"2014-06-17T15:57:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T15:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=c36505ef92ac11b4a2da37d9ac674dd5"},"modified":"2014-06-17T15:57:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T15:57:53","slug":"press-release-press-briefing-morning-16-june-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=43807","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Press briefing: morning 16 June 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"tibet\">Tibet<\/h2>\n<p>Asked about the government\u2019s stance on Tibet, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said the government respects China\u2019s sovereignty and that the position remained unchanged. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"uk-china-summit\">UK-China summit<\/h2>\n<p>Asked about what would be discussed at the summit, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said while we could not pre-empt discussions, a range of key bilateral issues, including trade, the economy and security would be on the agenda. Asked about Chinese visas, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said that the government was always looking at ways to underline the message that it is open for business. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"education-reforms\">Education reforms<\/h2>\n<p>Asked about comments in the Times on education reforms, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said that the Prime Minister was focused on the government\u2019s long term economic plan \u2013 of which education reforms and raising levels of attainment were an important part.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"iraq\">Iraq<\/h2>\n<p>Asked about what support was being offered to the Iraqi government, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said that the government had taken a number of immediate actions, including offering humanitarian assistance and counter terrorism advice. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"orgreave-miners-strike\">Orgreave miners\u2019 strike<\/h2>\n<p>Asked about investigations into the Orgreave miners\u2019 strike in the 1980s, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said that there was an Independent Police Complaints Commission exercise underway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister\u2019s Spokesperson (PMS) answered questions on issues including the UK China summit and Iraq.<\/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\/43807"}],"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=43807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}