{"id":209,"date":"2009-11-10T08:23:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T14:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=209"},"modified":"2009-11-13T08:51:28","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T14:51:28","slug":"gordon-brown-apologises-to-grieving-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/gordon-brown-apologises-to-grieving-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Brown apologises to grieving mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/gordon-brown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-210\" title=\"Gordon Brown\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/gordon-brown-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Gordon Brown\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/gordon-brown-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/gordon-brown.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Gordon Brown said on Tuesday he had apologised to the grieving mother of a British soldier killed in Afghanistan, who had taken offence at a sloppily written condolence note from the Prime Minister.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jacqui Janes had called the handwritten note, which appeared to mis-spell her son&#8217;s surname, a &#8220;hastily scrawled insult.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In his regular press conference, Gordon Brown expressed regret and blamed the incident on his poor handwriting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I apologised to Jacqui Janes yesterday for any mistakes that had been made,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The last thing on my mind was to cause any offence to (her) and I think people know me well enough to know that it would never be my intention &#8230; to cause any grief to a grieving mother.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I understand very well the sadness that she feels, and the way that she has expressed her grief is something that I can also clearly understand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Brown&#8217;s apology was made in a private phone call to Janes which she had taped and which was reproduced by The Sun newspaper, a critic of government policy on Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Downing Street said Brown was unaware his conversation was being recorded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Brown said on Tuesday he had apologised to the grieving mother of a British soldier killed in Afghanistan, who had taken offence at a sloppily written condolence note from the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,118,101,14],"tags":[708,804,799,802,805,801,800,803,806],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-british-prime-minister-gordon-brown","tag-brown","tag-gordon-brown","tag-gordon-brown-afghanistan","tag-gordon-brown-apologise","tag-gordon-brown-gordon-brown","tag-jacqui-janes","tag-prime-minister-gordon-brown","tag-the-sun-gordon-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}