{"id":158069,"date":"2015-06-10T06:53:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T06:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=158069"},"modified":"2015-06-10T06:53:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T06:53:54","slug":"british-parliament-votes-favor-eu-exit-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/british-parliament-votes-favor-eu-exit-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"British parliament votes in favor EU exit referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>British parliament members have overwhelmingly voted in favor of plans to hold a referendum on the UK&#8217;s membership in the European Union.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following a lengthily debate, the EU Referendum Bill &#8212; backed by the labor party &#8212; was pushed through the House of Commons with 544 yes votes on Tuesday. Out of the 650 MPs, 53 voted against the move.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had referendums on Scottish devolution, referendums on Welsh devolution, referendums on our electoral system and on a regional assembly for the North East,&#8221; said Britain\u2019s Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond during the debate.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;But an entire generation of British voters has been denied the chance to have a say on our relationship with the European Union&#8230; today we are putting that right,&#8221; he added, noting that the public must have the &#8220;final say&#8221; about the UK&#8217;s place in Europe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the referendum takes place &#8212; supposedly by the end of 2017 at the latest &#8212; it will be the first time Britain\u2019s links with Europe are put to vote since 1975.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/06\/10\/415116\/eu-exit-uk-house-of-commons\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British parliament members have overwhelmingly voted in favor of plans to hold a referendum on the UK&#8217;s membership in the European Union. Following a lengthily debate, the EU Referendum Bill &#8212; backed by the labor party &#8212; was pushed through the House of Commons with 544 yes votes on Tuesday. Out of the 650 MPs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-158069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}