{"id":51185,"date":"2014-12-04T17:47:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T17:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=bb991d48dffc16e37be925587390efac"},"modified":"2014-12-04T17:47:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T17:47:34","slug":"press-release-press-briefing-afternoon-4-december-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=51185","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Press briefing: afternoon 4 December 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"autumn-statement\">Autumn Statement<\/h2>\n<p>When asked about the spending cuts mentioned in the Autumn Statement, the Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson (<abbr title=\"Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr>) said the Chancellor had been quite clear that there are going to have to be further difficult decisions and that this government already had a track record of taking those decisions and implementing them. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"bbc-licence-fee-review\">BBC licence fee review<\/h2>\n<p>When asked what the current plans are for the BBC licence fee review, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> said that it would be part of the Charter Review and that there was a separate consultation in terms of penalties for the avoidance of paying the licence fee.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"jeremy-thorpe\">Jeremy Thorpe<\/h2>\n<p>When asked about the death of Jeremy Thorpe, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> said the Prime Minister expressed his condolences to Mr Thorpe\u2019s friends and family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister&#8217;s Official Spokesperson answered questions about the Autumn Statement, BBC licence fee review and the death of Jeremy Thorpe.<\/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\/51185"}],"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=51185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}