{"id":429,"date":"2017-02-01T12:06:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T12:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.johnwhittingdale.co.uk\/?p=429"},"modified":"2021-08-18T16:31:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T16:31:43","slug":"donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of constituents have written to me regarding polices implemented by Donald Trump during his first two weeks as President.<\/p>\n<p>I do not agree with the recent actions taken by Donald Trump as President of the United States.&nbsp; However, we have invited many international leaders to the UK who have a far worse record on human rights and used the opportunity to speak to them, encouraging change.&nbsp; Refusing to engage or debate would lead to the USA taking an even greater isolationist stance.<\/p>\n<p>The USA is a close ally of the United Kingdom. We work together across many areas of mutual interest and we have historically enjoyed a special relationship between our two nations.&nbsp; The Prime Minister has issued an invitation for a state visit for President Trump to the United Kingdom and that invitation rightly stands.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I would expect these issues to be raised during any visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of constituents have written to me regarding polices implemented by Donald Trump during his first two weeks as President. I do not agree with the recent actions taken by Donald Trump as President of the United States.&nbsp; However, we have invited many international leaders to the UK who have a far worse record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1538,"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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-campaigns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","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=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/1868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}