{"id":342525,"date":"2018-01-05T21:30:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T20:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-tony-blair-calls-for-second-brexit-referendum\/"},"modified":"2018-01-05T21:30:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T20:30:56","slug":"presstv-tony-blair-calls-for-second-brexit-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-tony-blair-calls-for-second-brexit-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Tony Blair calls for second Brexit referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Former British\u00a0Prime Minister Tony Blair has called on the Labour party leadership to back his call for a second referendum on whether Britain was still willing to leave the European Union, arguing that the country\u2019s exit from the bloc was \u201cby no means a foregone conclusion.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Blair made the comment in an interview with German newspaper <em>Die Welt<\/em> published on Thursday, saying that British citizens had the right to \u201crethink the decision,\u201d now that the potential impact of Brexit is clearer than it was prior to the vote in June last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The former premier said ordinary Labour voters\u2019 problems would not be resolved by Brexit as those circumstances before the vote had changed, warning that the energies of the British government were totally absorbed by Brexit talks at the expense of the health service, and other Labour priorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Blair also called on Europe to consider the possibility that London could change its mind about leaving&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/01\/05\/547950\/Tony-Blair-Brexit-second-referendum-European-Union\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former British\u00a0Prime Minister Tony Blair has called on the Labour party leadership to back his call for a second referendum on whether Britain was still willing to leave the European Union, arguing that the country\u2019s exit from the bloc was \u201cby no means a foregone conclusion.\u201d Blair made the comment in an interview with German [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-342525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342525","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=342525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}