{"id":88241,"date":"2018-01-22T16:58:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T16:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=596f10b030b262eaafdc072fc23d1aca"},"modified":"2018-01-22T16:58:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T16:58:12","slug":"press-release-prime-minister-to-host-burns-supper-in-downing-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=88241","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Prime Minister to host Burns Supper in Downing Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Scots from a variety of business sectors, food and drink suppliers, educational institutions and politics will join the Prime Minister and Mr May, the Secretary of State for Scotland and others for a three-course meal in the State Dining Room.<\/p>\n<p>Glasgow-based \u2018MasterChef: The Professionals\u2019 winner Gary Maclean will take over the Downing Street kitchen for the day to prepare the menu, made up of fresh produce from a range of Scottish suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>Guests will be welcomed into Downing Street by a piper from the Scots Guards.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister, who will give a welcome address to guests this evening, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Scotland is a greatly valued part of our United Kingdom and its contribution to the UK is immense \u2013 economically, socially, and culturally.<\/p>\n<p>And Robert Burns is a great example of that, as one of our finest poets, famous world-wide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I\u2019m very much looking forward to this evening and the chance to celebrate a great poet, a great nation and an enduring Union.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of the courses being prepared by the head chef, who is also a senior lecturer at Glasgow City College, are the very ones that impressed the judges during the BBC2 cookery show.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Maclean said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m incredibly honoured to cook for the Prime Minister and showcase the best Scottish produce, sourced from local farms and dairies for this evening\u2019s Burns Supper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">A Burns Supper is an institution in Scottish life and it\u2019s wonderful to be able to be part of such a celebration of the works of our national bard in Downing Street.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr Maclean will be joined in the kitchen by his team, which includes his fellow MasterChef contenders, Matthew Healy and James Villiers, and James McGuire, who works for Braehead Foods.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister will host a traditional Burns Supper in Downing Street this evening (Monday) in celebration of the life and works of the famous Scottish bard.<\/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\/88241"}],"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=88241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}