{"id":84174,"date":"2017-09-10T19:20:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T19:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=32a3336a079d31fd48af449e7ea6e405"},"modified":"2017-09-10T19:20:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T19:20:31","slug":"press-release-cobr-meeting-on-hurricane-irma-10-september-2017-foreign-secretarys-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=84174","title":{"rendered":"Press release: COBR meeting on Hurricane Irma, 10 September 2017: Foreign Secretary&#8217;s statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Za5nkaTqjjg&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Foreign Secretary\u2019s post-<abbr title=\"Cabinet Office Briefing Room\">COBR<\/abbr> statement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ve just come out of <abbr title=\"Cabinet Office Briefing Room\">COBR<\/abbr> where we\u2019ve again been discussing the catastrophe that\u2019s engulfed our friends in the British Virgin Islands, in Anguilla and Turks and Caicos, and of course across the Caribbean, the victims of Hurricane Irma.<\/p>\n<p>It was a mercy that Hurricane Jose proved less destructive than had been feared, but now we\u2019re stepping up our aid effort. Three planes going in today, 500 British troops in the region, 125 UK soldiers on British Virgin Islands alone. As I speak, 53 UK police officers in the air, on their way to help sort things out, get these wonderful places back on their feet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">If you want to donate to help British people over there in the Overseas Territories, then we will match your contributions to the Red Cross, pound for pound.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>To donate to the British Red Cross Hurricane Irma appeal visit: <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/beta.redcross.org.uk\/appeal\/hurricane-irma-appeal\">www.redcross.org.uk\/HurricaneIrma<\/a> or call 0300 456 4999.<\/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 to Hurricane Irma<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the latest COBR meeting, Boris Johnson gave an update on government support for the UK Overseas Territories after Hurricane Irma.<\/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\/84174"}],"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=84174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}