{"id":45809,"date":"2018-06-18T15:50:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T13:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/18\/may-refuses-to-back-hunt-on-changing-medicinal-cannabis-laws-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2018-06-18T15:50:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T13:50:12","slug":"may-refuses-to-back-hunt-on-changing-medicinal-cannabis-laws-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=45809","title":{"rendered":"May refuses to back Hunt on changing medicinal cannabis laws &#8211; Politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of the day\u2019s political developments as they happen, including Theresa May\u2019s speech on the NHS and the Lords debate on the EU withdrawal billJeremy Hunt\u2019s morning interviews &#8211; Summary 2.40pm BST Stephen Pound, the shadow Northern Ireland minister, filmed a message at the weekend backing a \u201cpeople\u2019s vote\u201d Brexit. This is taken as referring to a second referendum, which is what the People\u2019s Vote campaign is calling for. But Labour does not favour a second referendum and, as PoliticsHome reports, Pound has now issued a clarification, saying what he actually wants is a \u201cmeaningful vote\u201d in parliament.Last month Preet Gill, a shadow international development minister, experienced a similar rethink after speaking out in favour of a second referendum. 2.24pm BST And this is from Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow health secretary, The money announced today by the prime minister is not enough to save our NHS after eight years of Conservative austerity.Although she confirmed the current situation is not sustainable, today\u2019s figures represent little more than a standstill in funding, according to experts. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/blog\/live\/2018\/jun\/18\/hunt-admits-brexit-divident-wont-be-anything-like-enough-to-fund-pms-20bn-boost-for-nhs-politics-live\" target=\"_blank\">May refuses to back Hunt on changing medicinal cannabis laws &#8211; Politics live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of the day\u2019s political developments as they happen, including Theresa May\u2019s speech on the NHS and the Lords debate on the EU withdrawal billJeremy Hunt\u2019s morning interviews &#8211; Summary 2.40pm BST Stephen Pound, the shadow Northern Ireland minister, filmed a message at the weekend backing a \u201cpeople\u2019s vote\u201d [&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-45809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45809","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=45809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}