{"id":28143,"date":"2018-02-13T15:06:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T14:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/13\/oxfam-scandal-ministers-have-serious-questions-to-answer-say-labour-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2018-02-13T15:06:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T14:06:45","slug":"oxfam-scandal-ministers-have-serious-questions-to-answer-say-labour-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=28143","title":{"rendered":"Oxfam scandal: ministers have &#039;serious questions to answer&#039;, say Labour &#8211; politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of the day\u2019s political developments as they happen 2.06pm GMT Some interesting comments from the leader of the DUP, Arlene Foster, who says the presence of the prime minister, Theresa May, and the Irish taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, proved \u201cbit of a distraction\u201d at Stormont yesterday. While they were welcome, Foster says the arrivals of Varadkar and May, whose Westminster government the DUP props up, interrupted negotiations.I am hopeful that we will move toward devolution again.Whether it\u2019s this week, whether it\u2019s in a couple of weeks or whether it\u2019s in a couple of months what I must ensure is that we have an accommodation that everybody feels content with.There won\u2019t be a stand-alone Irish Language Act &#8211; we have always made that very clear, people aren\u2019t going to be forced to learn Irish, there isn\u2019t going to be Irish compulsory in schools, there\u2019s not going to be bilingual signs or quotas in the civil service. Some of the speculation has actually caused a lot of concern right across the community in Northern Ireland and it\u2019s important that we say that that is not based in reality. I am the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party so therefore I will be the person that\u2019s put forward by the party to be first minister. 1.40pm GMT An unnamed police officer in Speaker\u2019s Court said a suspicious package has been found, according to Press Association. The officer is quoted as saying: \u201cWe haven\u2019t been told much but a package has been left. Specialist officers have just arrived to examine it. It won\u2019t be anything to worry about.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2018\/feb\/13\/oxfam-scandal-charity-commission-opens-inquiry-politics-live\" target=\"_blank\">Oxfam scandal: ministers have &#039;serious questions to answer&#039;, say Labour &#8211; politics live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of the day\u2019s political developments as they happen 2.06pm GMT Some interesting comments from the leader of the DUP, Arlene Foster, who says the presence of the prime minister, Theresa May, and the Irish taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, proved \u201cbit of a distraction\u201d at Stormont yesterday. While they were [&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-28143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28143","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=28143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}