{"id":49415,"date":"2014-10-29T11:01:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T11:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f1ac6c10ccba620416827f4d6cfa3c69"},"modified":"2014-10-29T11:01:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T11:01:39","slug":"press-release-press-briefing-afternoon-28-october-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=49415","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Press briefing: afternoon 28 October 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"afghanistan\">Afghanistan<\/h2>\n<p>When asked about Afghanistan, the Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson (<abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr>) said lessons had been learned throughout the operation, including how the armed forces trained Afghan forces. These lessons have informed the approach taken in tackling <abbr title=\"Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant\">ISIL<\/abbr> in Iraq, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> added.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"immigration\">Immigration<\/h2>\n<p>When asked about immigration, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> said the government\u2019s focus was to look at the pull factors which affect immigration, and how they might be addressed. The <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> noted the government\u2019s reforms to benefits. As a result of measures being taken, non-<abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr> migration is close to its lowest level since 1998.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"uk-contribution-to-the-eu-budget\">UK contribution to the <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr> budget<\/h2>\n<p>When asked about the UK contribution to the <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr> budget, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> said every opportunity was being taken to raise this important issue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister&#8217;s Official Spokesperson answered questions on Afghanistan, immigration and the UK contribution to the EU budget.<\/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\/49415"}],"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=49415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}