{"id":43956,"date":"2014-06-19T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=1e91ba60c5d1215dc34396bd20069faf"},"modified":"2014-06-19T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T22:05:00","slug":"news-story-helen-grant-interview-on-holidays-the-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=43956","title":{"rendered":"News story: Helen Grant interview on holidays &#8211; the facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"transcript-from-the-interview\">Transcript from the interview<\/h2>\n<p>Question: With the row going on now with the passports is that a good opportunity for you to remind people that if they are struggling to get passports they can avoid the hassle and just holiday in the UK?<\/p>\n<p>Helen Grant <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">It\u2019s about choice at the end of the day people should do what they want. I would have to say I grew up in Cumbria just on the edge of the Lake District and my constituency is the heart of the garden of England I\u2019m probably biased but I think those two areas are two jewels in  a very rich crown. There\u2019s a lot to be said for the staycation I think people want to do what they like. I think we will have a great summer and a great summer of sport too, there\u2019s a lot of opportunity to build your holiday around a spoilt for choice list, Tour de France, we\u2019ve got the golf, we\u2019ve got the Commonwealth Games, we\u2019ve got the football on the TV, we will be spoilt for choice in terms of sport here and it\u2019s a wonderful place to have a holiday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Question: So if you don\u2019t get your passport it\u2019s not the end of the world?<\/p>\n<p>Helen Grant<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Well I\u2019m sure you will do, I\u2019m very confident, I have no doubt you will do. But if you don\u2019t want to go away we have some fantastic holidays here.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcript of Helen Grant&#8217;s interview with The House magazine.<\/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\/43956"}],"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=43956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}