{"id":52240,"date":"2015-12-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=489e60206bdfe8b8fc1acd3fb83632a6"},"modified":"2015-12-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T12:00:00","slug":"press-release-press-briefing-afternoon-7-december-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=52240","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Press briefing: afternoon 7 December 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"paris-attack\">Paris Attack<\/h2>\n<p>When asked about the terrorist attack in Paris, the Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson (<abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr>) said the government permanently kept security arrangements under review, adding that the UK authorities would assist the French authorities in any way that was helpful. The <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> added the Prime Minister was being regularly updated by his national security team, including a full intelligence briefing.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"voting-age\">Voting Age<\/h2>\n<p>When asked about a parliamentary debate and vote on lowering the voting age to 16, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> said the Prime Minister was entirely happy for Parliament to debate the issue. While the government\u2019s legislative agenda had been set in the Queen\u2019s Speech, there was a range of ways in which Parliament could consider the matter should parliamentarians choose to do so, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> added. The Prime Minister\u2019s own view was the one he had set out at Prime Minister\u2019s Questions, namely that the case had not yet been made.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister&#8217;s Official Spokesperson answered questions about the Paris attack and 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\/52240"}],"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=52240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}