{"id":72372,"date":"2016-07-14T20:03:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T20:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d8ac02cf1852211ce37e1d3580bb8544"},"modified":"2016-07-14T20:03:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T20:03:13","slug":"press-release-downing-street-political-advisers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=72372","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Downing Street political advisers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Prime Minister Theresa May has confirmed her initial special adviser appointments in Downing Street.<\/p>\n<p>Special advisers are a critical part of the team supporting ministers. They add a political dimension to the advice and assistance available to ministers while reinforcing the political impartiality of the permanent Civil Service by distinguishing the source of political advice and support.<\/p>\n<p>The following special advisers have been appointed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joint Chiefs of Staff \u2013 Fiona Hill &amp; Nick Timothy<\/li>\n<li>Director of Policy \u2013 John Godfrey<\/li>\n<li>Director of Communications \u2013 Katie Perrior<\/li>\n<li>Press Secretary \u2013 Lizzie Loudon<\/li>\n<li>Head of Features \u2013 Liz Sanderson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Further appointments will be confirmed in due course.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Theresa May announces her initial special adviser appointments for 10 Downing Street.<\/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\/72372"}],"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=72372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}