{"id":378104,"date":"2018-09-21T20:21:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T19:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-britains-ukip-calls-for-total-eu-pullout\/"},"modified":"2018-09-21T20:21:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T19:21:42","slug":"presstv-britains-ukip-calls-for-total-eu-pullout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-britains-ukip-calls-for-total-eu-pullout\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Britain\u2019s UKIP calls for \u2018total\u2019 EU pullout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has launched a populist manifesto calling for a complete and total withdrawal of Britain from the European Union as the government struggles to negotiate a deal with the EU on how the country will leave the bloc in March next year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The manifesto document published on Friday by UKIP leader Gerard Batten said that Britain should end all payments to the EU and stop adhering to the bloc\u2019s rules.<\/p>\n<p>The party also reiterated its previous positions on immigration, saying the government should be more selective and limited in its approach to the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-page manifest also called for scrapping overseas aid, lowering domestic taxes and a tougher approach to taxing multinational companies.<\/p>\n<p>UKIP was one of the main drivers of a referendum in 2016 that saw Britons vote for their country to leave the EU. Its former leader, talismanic politician Nigel Farage, was a key figure in the Leave campaign.<\/p>\n<p>However, UKIP has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/21\/574739\/Britain-UKIP-manifesto-Brexit-talks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has launched a populist manifesto calling for a complete and total withdrawal of Britain from the European Union as the government struggles to negotiate a deal with the EU on how the country will leave the bloc in March next year. The manifesto document published on Friday by UKIP leader [&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-378104","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\/378104","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=378104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}