{"id":666,"date":"2021-06-02T09:21:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T09:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.johnwhittingdale.co.uk\/?p=666"},"modified":"2021-08-11T13:56:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T13:56:29","slug":"world-press-freedom-day-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"World Press Freedom Day Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">John was called to respond on behalf of the Government to a Westminster Hall debate on this year&#8217;s World Press Freedom Day.&nbsp;Press freedom in the UK and across the world has been an issue John has been closely involved with both during his time in government and as a backbencher. The debate was therefore a good opportunity for him to underline the Government&#8217;s commitment to the protection of journalists both at home and abroad.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">You can read&nbsp;more about John&#8217;s thoughts on the threats to journalists and press freedom <a href=\"https:\/\/protect-eu.mimecast.com\/s\/X01vCXL8EiQp3gvTxvJIC?domain=johnwhittingdale.us3.list-manage.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>&nbsp;and watch his response to the debate&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/protect-eu.mimecast.com\/s\/V1U1CYW3GF7GPvRIrXEwa?domain=johnwhittingdale.us3.list-manage.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John was called to respond on behalf of the Government to a Westminster Hall debate on this year&#8217;s World Press Freedom Day.&nbsp;Press freedom in the UK and across the world has been an issue John has been closely involved with both during his time in government and as a backbencher. The debate was therefore a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1419,"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-666","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\/666","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=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}