{"id":371176,"date":"2018-07-28T10:39:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T09:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-needs-referendum-to-escape-political-paralysis\/"},"modified":"2018-07-28T10:39:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T09:39:29","slug":"presstv-uk-needs-referendum-to-escape-political-paralysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-needs-referendum-to-escape-political-paralysis\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-&#8216;UK needs referendum to escape political paralysis&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United Kingdom needs to hold\u00a0a referendum to heal the political division that has deepened over the government\u2019s plan to exit the European Union, says a British analyst and activist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think a general election or a referendum is the only way that Britain can escape the political paralysis that has gripped Westminster,\u201d said Lee Jasper, senior policy adviser\u00a0to former London Mayor Ken Livingstone.<\/p>\n<p>British voters are increasingly dissatisfied with Prime Minister Theresa May and her government, and more British voters favor a second referendum on the final terms of any Brexit deal with the EU, according to a new opinion poll.<\/p>\n<p>When voters were asked in a YouGov poll whether there should be a referendum on the final terms of any deal over exiting the EU, 42 percent said there should be a fresh vote while 40 percent said there should not. The rest did not know.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear that the country is divided,\u00a0the house of parliament is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/07\/28\/569480\/UN-referendum-Brexit\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom needs to hold\u00a0a referendum to heal the political division that has deepened over the government\u2019s plan to exit the European Union, says a British analyst and activist. \u201cI think a general election or a referendum is the only way that Britain can escape the political paralysis that has gripped Westminster,\u201d said Lee [&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-371176","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\/371176","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=371176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}