{"id":379420,"date":"2018-10-02T22:56:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T21:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-mays-brexit-plan-is-a-cheat-boris-johnson\/"},"modified":"2018-10-02T22:56:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T21:56:32","slug":"presstv-mays-brexit-plan-is-a-cheat-boris-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-mays-brexit-plan-is-a-cheat-boris-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-May\u2019s Brexit plan is a cheat: Boris Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Former British foreign minister Boris Johnson said that Prime Minister Theresa May is cheating the public with her plan for bringing the country out of the European Union.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Johnson told a fringe meeting of the \u00a0Conservative Party\u2019s annual conference in Birmingham on Tuesday that May\u2019s plan for a Brexit deal, known as Chequers for the place it was announced in July, was a betrayal to the British voters who decided for their country in a 2016 referendum to leave the EU.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the moment to chuck Chequers,\u201d said Johnson, adding, \u201cIf we cheat the electorate, and Chequers is a cheat, we will escalate that sense of mistrust &#8230; If we get it wrong, if we bottle Brexit now, believe me, the people of this country will find it hard to forgive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has been a main critic of Chequers and even resigned from May\u2019s cabinet when the plan was announced. The former mayor of London who was a key figure in the campaign for Brexit before the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/02\/575846\/Tory-conference-Johnson-speech-Brexit\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former British foreign minister Boris Johnson said that Prime Minister Theresa May is cheating the public with her plan for bringing the country out of the European Union. Johnson told a fringe meeting of the \u00a0Conservative Party\u2019s annual conference in Birmingham on Tuesday that May\u2019s plan for a Brexit deal, known as Chequers for 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-379420","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\/379420","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=379420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}