{"id":77817,"date":"2017-01-09T17:37:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T17:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a7c989c40d17313fe96b8433a7ae0bc1"},"modified":"2017-01-09T17:37:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T17:37:20","slug":"press-release-secretary-of-state-on-the-deputy-first-ministers-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=77817","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Secretary of State on the deputy First Minister&#8217;s resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The UK Government has a primary role in providing political stability in Northern Ireland and we will do all that we can to help the parties find a resolution in the coming days.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">There is a clear process set out regarding what happens next.  Unless Sinn Fein nominates a replacement to the position of deputy First Minister within the next seven days, it is incumbent upon me to call an Assembly election within a reasonable period.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I would urge Northern Ireland\u2019s political leaders to take the necessary steps to work together to find a way forward and I will work with all parties and the Irish government to this end.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Brokenshire issued the following statement after Martin McGuinness&#8217; resignation as deputy First Minister.<\/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\/77817"}],"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=77817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}