{"id":89037,"date":"2018-02-14T18:16:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T18:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d33c42ebe4f4184a81070fc7d1aa1de5"},"modified":"2018-02-14T18:16:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T18:16:08","slug":"press-release-rt-hon-karen-bradley-mp-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=89037","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Rt Hon Karen Bradley MP statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Rt Hon Karen Bradley MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Both parties have conducted discussions seriously and in good faith.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">While substantive progress towards an agreement has been made, it appears that this phase of talks has reached a conclusion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I would urge everyone to reflect on the circumstances which have led to this and their positions, both now and in the future.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The position of the UK Government remains the same: devolved government is in the best interests of everyone in Northern Ireland and is best for the Union.  I believe the basis for an accommodation still exists.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">As the Prime Minister said during her visit on Monday, we are ready to bring forward legislation to enable an Executive to be formed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We will continue to work with everyone to make sure we do deliver this.  We now need to consider practical steps.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">In the continued absence of an Executive, other challenging decisions will have to be taken by the UK Government.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I will update Parliament when the House returns from Recess next week.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Parliament Buildings, the Secretary of State delivered an update regarding the political situation in Northern Ireland.<\/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\/89037"}],"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=89037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}