{"id":2404,"date":"2022-03-01T17:24:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T17:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2022-03-01T17:25:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T17:25:44","slug":"support-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=2404","title":{"rendered":"Support for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>John Whittingdale MP joined other Members of Parliament in signing the book of solidarity, to show his unwavering support for Ukraine, and to honour the inspiring bravery of the Ukrainian people in the face of unjust violence and aggression. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The signed Book of Solidarity will be sent to Ruslan Stefanchuk, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Parliament of Ukraine- to send the message that the UK will always offer steadfast support and friendship. <img decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tf5\/2\/16\/1f1ec_1f1e7.png\" alt=\"??\"> <img decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t51\/2\/16\/1f1fa_1f1e6.png\" alt=\"??\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Whittingdale wrote: <br><br><em>&#8220;I have visited Ukraine many times and am deeply saddened by the tragedy unfolding as a result of the wholly unprovoked and illegal Russian Invasion. The courage of the Ukrainian people is inspiring and we in the UK Parliament are united in standing in support of them, their country and democracy. We are all Ukrainian Today.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>John Whittingdale. Order of Merit (Ukraine)<\/strong> <br>Leader of UK Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JOHN-UKRAINE.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2405\" width=\"547\" height=\"410\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Whittingdale MP joined other Members of Parliament in signing the book of solidarity, to show his unwavering support for Ukraine, and to honour the inspiring bravery of the Ukrainian people in the face of unjust violence and aggression. The signed Book of Solidarity will be sent to Ruslan Stefanchuk, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-westminster-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions\/2409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}