{"id":88605,"date":"2019-04-14T15:39:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T13:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/04\/14\/david-lammy-says-comparing-erg-to-nazis-not-strong-enough\/"},"modified":"2019-04-14T15:39:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T13:39:37","slug":"david-lammy-says-comparing-erg-to-nazis-not-strong-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=88605","title":{"rendered":"David Lammy says comparing ERG to Nazis &#039;not strong enough&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour MP defends comments likening group to Nazi party and white supremacistsDavid Lammy has said comparing the hard Brexit European Research Group of Tory MPs with Nazis and proponents of South African apartheid was \u201cnot strong enough\u201d, and suggested that the Brexit debate has allowed proponents of hard right views to flourish.The Labour MP, who is a vocal campaigner for a second EU referendum, was asked on the BBC\u2019s Andrew Marr Show whether a comparison he previously made to the election of Adolf Hitler\u2019s party in Germany and to South African white supremacists was appropriate. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2019\/apr\/14\/comparing-erg-to-nazis-not-strong-enough-says-david-lammy\" target=\"_blank\">David Lammy says comparing ERG to Nazis &#039;not strong enough&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour MP defends comments likening group to Nazi party and white supremacistsDavid Lammy has said comparing the hard Brexit European Research Group of Tory MPs with Nazis and proponents of South African apartheid was \u201cnot strong enough\u201d, and suggested that the Brexit debate has allowed proponents of hard right views [&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-88605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88605","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=88605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}