{"id":384147,"date":"2018-11-08T00:45:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T23:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-pm-bluffing-about-no-deal-brexit-labour-mp\/"},"modified":"2018-11-08T00:45:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T23:45:51","slug":"presstv-uk-pm-bluffing-about-no-deal-brexit-labour-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-pm-bluffing-about-no-deal-brexit-labour-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-UK PM \u2018bluffing\u2019 about no-deal Brexit: Labour MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A senior member of Britain&#8217;s Labour Party says that talks of a no-deal Brexit are simply a trick by the UK government to persuade the opposition and others to vote for a deal that would come out of the current Brexit negotiations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Keir Starmer, a Labour MP and shadow Brexit minister, said Wednesday that Prime Minister Theresa May was bluffing about no-deal Brexit, saying her suggestions that Britain was ready for contingencies arising out of the scenario were not true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI honestly don\u2019t believe any prime minister would seriously consider taking the decision to crash the UK out of the EU without an agreement,\u201d said Starmer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe no-deal rhetoric from the government is a bluff and we shouldn\u2019t fall for it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>May is in the final phases of talks with Brussels on clinching a deal that could guarantee a smooth Brexit and ensure that there would be no hard border between the two sides on the island of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>However, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/11\/07\/579389\/UK-Brexit-deal-Labour-May\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior member of Britain&#8217;s Labour Party says that talks of a no-deal Brexit are simply a trick by the UK government to persuade the opposition and others to vote for a deal that would come out of the current Brexit negotiations. Keir Starmer, a Labour MP and shadow Brexit minister, said Wednesday that Prime [&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-384147","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\/384147","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=384147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}