{"id":391369,"date":"2019-01-02T20:40:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T19:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-cancelling-brexit-will-be-devastating-uk-fm\/"},"modified":"2019-01-02T20:40:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T19:40:33","slug":"presstv-cancelling-brexit-will-be-devastating-uk-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-cancelling-brexit-will-be-devastating-uk-fm\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Cancelling Brexit will be devastating: UK FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has warned that if the government cancels results of a June 2016 referendum in which Britons decided for their country to leave the European Union, it would have harsh impacts on the United Kingdom&#8217;s social fabric.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Singapore during a question-and-answer session on Wednesday, Hunt said that social consequences of not leaving the EU would be &#8220;devastating.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The comments come as some believe if the British parliament rejects a divorce deal signed between Prime Minister Theresa May and the EU, Britain could opt to cancel Brexit altogether and call a fresh referendum that would allow the country to remain in the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>However, May and other senior government officials have rejected the possibility for a second referendum on Brexit, saying it would be highly controversial and further divide the nation along political lines.<\/p>\n<p>Hunt reiterated that a second vote on Brexit or a vote on May\u2019s own Brexit&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/01\/02\/584674\/UK-Brexit-row-cancellation-Hunt\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has warned that if the government cancels results of a June 2016 referendum in which Britons decided for their country to leave the European Union, it would have harsh impacts on the United Kingdom&#8217;s social fabric. Speaking in Singapore during a question-and-answer session on Wednesday, Hunt said that social consequences [&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-391369","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\/391369","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=391369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}