{"id":51307,"date":"2014-12-08T17:56:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T17:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=eeafaff59ba43c79df0ea2b823bd8e62"},"modified":"2014-12-08T17:56:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T17:56:28","slug":"press-release-press-briefing-afternoon-8-december-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=51307","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Press briefing: afternoon 8 December 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"food-banks\">Food banks<\/h2>\n<p>When asked about the All Party Parliamentary Group on Hunger and Food Poverty\u2019s report \u2018Feeding Britain\u2019, the Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson (<abbr title=\"Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr>) said the government would look at the recommendations set out in the report. The <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> added that the central point of government in this regard was to increase people\u2019s living standards, and support an economy which created jobs and cut people\u2019s taxes.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"voting-age\">Voting age<\/h2>\n<p>When asked about proposals to lower the voting age to 16 at general elections, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> said the Prime Minister\u2019s view hadn\u2019t changed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister&#8217;s Official Spokesperson answered questions about food banks and proposals to lower the voting age.<\/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\/51307"}],"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=51307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}