{"id":46958,"date":"2018-06-26T15:59:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T13:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/26\/boris-johnson-criticised-after-telling-mps-why-he-is-increasingly-admiring-of-trump-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2018-06-26T15:59:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T13:59:16","slug":"boris-johnson-criticised-after-telling-mps-why-he-is-increasingly-admiring-of-trump-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=46958","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson criticised after telling MPs why he is &#039;increasingly admiring&#039; of Trump &#8211; Politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of the day\u2019s political developments as they happenLunchtime summary 2.56pm BST The suggestion that, when Boris Johnson said \u201cfuck business\u201d at a private Foreign Office, he was actually referring to lobbyists (see 12.37pm) has not gone down well with lobbyists. As fripouille points out BTL, Francis Ingham, head of the Public Relations and Communications Association, told Total Politics yesterday:[If Johnson was referring to lobbyists] that would mean that one of the most senior people in the government said \u2018fuck lobbyists\u2019 \u2013 in itself an insulting and outrageous sentiment. Lobbying plays a vital role in our democracy. 2.32pm BST At the Times CEO summit Greg Clark, the business secretary, was also speaking. According to Sky\u2019s Ed Conway, he said businesses \u201clook with dismay\u201d when government ministers disagree. Greg Clarke alluding to *that* Boris remark (\u201cf**k business\u201d) at the #TimesCEOSummit: \u201cWe don\u2019t want a running debate between different members of govt. Businesses look with dismay when there\u2019s disagreement. It does not inspire confidence.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/blog\/live\/2018\/jun\/26\/brexit-uncertainty-has-already-hit-investment-in-car-industry-manufacturers-say-politics-live\" target=\"_blank\">Boris Johnson criticised after telling MPs why he is &#039;increasingly admiring&#039; of Trump &#8211; Politics live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of the day\u2019s political developments as they happenLunchtime summary 2.56pm BST The suggestion that, when Boris Johnson said \u201cfuck business\u201d at a private Foreign Office, he was actually referring to lobbyists (see 12.37pm) has not gone down well with lobbyists. As fripouille points out BTL, Francis Ingham, head [&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-46958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46958","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=46958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}