{"id":52214,"date":"2015-01-07T11:40:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T11:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6b24cd1ba3cf887374a88db8f38e2557"},"modified":"2015-01-07T11:40:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T11:40:17","slug":"press-release-press-briefing-afternoon-6-january-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=52214","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Press briefing: afternoon 6 January 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"mansion-tax\">Mansion Tax<\/h2>\n<p>When asked about the PM\u2019s position on mansion tax, the Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson (<abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr>) said that the PM\u2019s view had not changed.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"eu-reforms-and-treaty-change\">EU Reforms and Treaty Change<\/h2>\n<p>When asked about the PM\u2019s views on the need for treaty change to allow for EU reforms, <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> referred back to the PM\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/speeches\/eu-speech-at-bloomberg\">Bloomberg speech<\/a>, where he said that he expected treaty change. <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> said that the PM\u2019s view had not changed.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"accident-and-emergency-ae\">Accident and Emergency (<abbr title=\"Accident and Emergency\">A&amp;E<\/abbr>)<\/h2>\n<p>When asked whether the PM thought that there was a crisis in <abbr title=\"Accident and Emergency\">A&amp;E<\/abbr>, <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> said that the PM agreed with the approach outlined by the Health Secretary. The government acknowledged that the NHS was facing challenges such as long-term challenges around demographic change, and more immediate challenges associated with winter pressures.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"counter-terrorism-bill\">Counter Terrorism Bill<\/h2>\n<p>When asked whether there would be an announcement imminently about exclusion orders being used for returning fighters from overseas, <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> said that the government would give careful consideration when the legislation returned to the House of Lords.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister&#8217;s Official Spokesperson answered questions on mansion tax, EU reforms and treaty, A&amp;E and the Counter Terrorism Bill<\/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\/52214"}],"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=52214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}