{"id":84117,"date":"2017-09-08T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=5eae0b42896de98d2d063412afb0e566"},"modified":"2017-09-08T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T11:00:11","slug":"press-release-hurricane-irma-foreign-secretarys-statement-8-september-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=84117","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Hurricane Irma: Foreign Secretary&#8217;s statement, 8 September 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I want to say something about the continuing crisis in the Caribbean where Hurricane Irma has caused great devastation in the British Virgin Islands and elsewhere. There are now further storms moving in, Hurricane Jose.<\/p>\n<p>We have sent, as you know, <abbr title=\"Royal Fleet Auxiliary\">RFA<\/abbr> Mounts Bay which will be moving from Anguila to the British Virgin Islands later on this morning to distribute humanitarian aid there. We\u2019ve announced a \u00a332 million aid package for the area. We\u2019re sending a Foreign Office team as well as <abbr title=\"Department for International Development\">DFID<\/abbr> teams and UK troops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">And the Foreign Office has set up a hotline. If anyone is concerned about their relatives or about what is likely to happen to holiday makers in that area, please get onto that hotline which should be available on the website.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>The hotline is 0207 008 0000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/hurricane-irma-advice-for-british-nationals\">government\u2019s response and advice for people affected by Hurricane Irma<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Johnson gave an update on the UK government&#8217;s response to Hurricane Irma in the Caribbean and announced the hotline: 0207 008 0000.<\/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\/84117"}],"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=84117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}