{"id":279082,"date":"2016-11-14T17:22:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T16:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-building-contacts-with-us-president-elect-pms-spokeswoman\/"},"modified":"2016-11-15T00:29:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T23:29:08","slug":"uk-building-contacts-with-us-president-elect-pms-spokeswoman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/uk-building-contacts-with-us-president-elect-pms-spokeswoman\/","title":{"rendered":"UK building contacts with US president-elect: PM\u2019s spokeswoman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United Kingdom has established ways of contacting US President-elect Donald Trump and is building\u00a0ties with the billionaire businessman, according to the office of Prime Minister Theresa May.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The prime minister&#8217;s official spokeswoman made the\u00a0remarks on Monday when asked about a recent US trip by UK Independence Party Leader Nigel Farage, a leading Brexit campaigner. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Farage met the US president-elect on Saturday at his New York residence Trump Tower, spending two hours discussing \u201cglobal politics, and the status of Brexit.\u201d The\u00a0British politician also suggested that he should become a &#8220;go-between&#8221; for the government and the next US administration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have established routes of engagement with the President-elect and his team. Our diplomatic staff have been building those contacts and links in the run up to the election,&#8221; the spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/photo\/20161113\/2ff0d577-e03c-4ab5-bf35-62e3a5147a73.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Donald Trump (L) and Nigel Farage at Trump Tower in New York on November, 12, 2016. (Photo by the&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/11\/14\/493561\/US-UK-contacts-Trump-London\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom has established ways of contacting US President-elect Donald Trump and is building\u00a0ties with the billionaire businessman, according to the office of Prime Minister Theresa May. The prime minister&#8217;s official spokeswoman made the\u00a0remarks on Monday when asked about a recent US trip by UK Independence Party Leader Nigel Farage, a leading Brexit campaigner. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-279082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279082","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=279082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}