{"id":389112,"date":"2018-12-14T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T11:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-must-prepare-for-second-brexit-referendum\/"},"modified":"2018-12-14T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T11:40:10","slug":"uk-must-prepare-for-second-brexit-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-must-prepare-for-second-brexit-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"UK must prepare for second Brexit referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for the United Kingdom and the European Union to prepare for a second Brexit referendum amid speculation that the UK parliament may fail to agree on a Brexit deal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Planning to speak in London on Friday, Blair&#8217;s office released extracts of the speech in advance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow should be the time of preparation \u2013 parliament to make sure it can canvass the options in [a] sensible manner, one by one, to reach agreement on an option or a referendum; Europe to ensure that if Britain is ready to think again, Europe is ready also to think again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The extracts stressed that an offer of a possible second Brexit referendum would show &#8220;the political leadership of Europe and Britain had listened to the underlying concerns of those who voted [for] Brexit, not disrespecting the concerns but meeting them in a way which is not damaging.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blair expressed his disapproval\u00a0of going through a potentially damaging&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/12\/14\/582888\/Brexit-referendum\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for the United Kingdom and the European Union to prepare for a second Brexit referendum amid speculation that the UK parliament may fail to agree on a Brexit deal. Planning to speak in London on Friday, Blair&#8217;s office released extracts of the speech in advance. \u201cNow should [&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-389112","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\/389112","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=389112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}