{"id":52804,"date":"2015-01-22T16:35:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T16:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=4da6b1e7c69f2401da026fd21426c562"},"modified":"2015-01-22T16:35:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T16:35:31","slug":"press-release-pm-statement-on-the-death-of-lord-brittan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=52804","title":{"rendered":"Press release: PM statement on the death of Lord Brittan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Prime Minister David Cameron has made a statement on the death of Lord Brittan of Spennithorne:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Leon Brittan was a dedicated and fiercely intelligent public servant. As a central figure in Margaret Thatcher\u2019s government, he helped her transform our country for the better by giving distinguished service as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Home Secretary, and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">He went on to play a leading role at the European Commission where he did so much to promote free trade in Europe and across the world. More recently, he made an active contribution to the House of Lords. My thoughts are with Leon\u2019s family and friends at this sad time for them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister David Cameron made a statement following the death of Leon Brittan.<\/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\/52804"}],"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=52804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}