{"id":350137,"date":"2018-02-28T06:12:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T05:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-scottish-parliament-will-not-sign-eu-exit-bill\/"},"modified":"2018-02-28T06:12:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T05:12:12","slug":"presstv-scottish-parliament-will-not-sign-eu-exit-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-scottish-parliament-will-not-sign-eu-exit-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018Scottish Parliament will not sign EU exit bill\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Edinburgh will refuse to agree to London\u2019s planned Brexit deal with the European Union, arguing that the exit bill would undermine the whole foundation on which the UK devolution system was built.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Sturgeon made the announcement in an interview with BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday, a day after the British government said it expected to reach an agreement with the devolved nations &#8211; Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales &#8211; on how power would be shared after the Britain\u2019s separation from the 28-member bloc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">&#8220;We are simply trying to protect the powers that the Scottish Parliament already has &#8211; things like agriculture, fishing, environmental policy, food standards, justice and health. These are all currently responsibilities of the Scottish Parliament,\u201d Sturgeon said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u201cAt the moment we have to exercise those powers within the confines of European law, but after Brexit, in terms of the devolution&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/02\/28\/553837\/Scotland-Nicola-Sturgeon-Brexit\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Edinburgh will refuse to agree to London\u2019s planned Brexit deal with the European Union, arguing that the exit bill would undermine the whole foundation on which the UK devolution system was built. Sturgeon made the announcement in an interview with BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday, a day after the [&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-350137","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\/350137","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=350137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}