{"id":162647,"date":"2020-09-30T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/09\/30\/newcastle-council-chief-hits-out-at-confusing-and-contradictory-covid-rules\/"},"modified":"2020-09-30T15:55:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T13:55:00","slug":"newcastle-council-chief-hits-out-at-confusing-and-contradictory-covid-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=162647","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle council chief hits out at &#039;confusing and contradictory&#039; Covid rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Forbes says even council enforcement officers do not know how to interpret rulesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe UK government\u2019s \u201cconfusing and contradictory\u201d Covid restrictions for the north-east of England have left space for \u201cdangerous\u201d conspiracy theories to fill the void, the leader of Newcastle city council has warned.Nick Forbes, the city\u2019s Labour leader since 2011, said confusion over the latest restrictions \u2013 which even Boris Johnson got wrong \u2013&nbsp;were \u201cdeeply unhelpful\u201d, admitting even his own enforcement officers were not immediately clear how to interpret them. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/30\/newcastle-council-chief-hits-out-at-confusing-and-contradictory-covid-rules\" target=\"_blank\">Newcastle council chief hits out at &#039;confusing and contradictory&#039; Covid rules<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Forbes says even council enforcement officers do not know how to interpret rulesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe UK government\u2019s \u201cconfusing and contradictory\u201d Covid restrictions for the north-east of England have left space for \u201cdangerous\u201d conspiracy theories to fill the void, the leader of Newcastle city council [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}