{"id":4051,"date":"2010-02-22T10:30:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T08:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2010-02-22T10:30:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T08:30:46","slug":"gordon-brown-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/gordon-brown-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Brown hit with new bullying accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/gordon-brown2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4052\" title=\"Gordon Brown hit with new bullying accusations \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/gordon-brown2-280x186.jpg\" alt=\"Gordon Brown hit with new bullying accusations \" width=\"280\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/gordon-brown2-280x186.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/gordon-brown2-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/gordon-brown2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is under renewed pressure after an anti-bullying charity revealed that it had been contacted by the premier&#8217;s staff.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christine Pratt, the head of the National Bullying Helpline (NBH) said the organization&#8217;s hotline has been called three or four times by the Downing Street staff during the past three or four years.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt told the state-funded BBC that it has had &#8220;several inquiries from staff within Gordon Brown&#8217;s office&#8221; about the prime minister&#8217;s foul behavior.<\/p>\n<p>She stopped short, however, of suggesting that &#8220;Gordon Brown is a bully.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Downing Street has denied contacting the charity, adding that it has its own &#8220;rigorous and well established&#8221; procedures for addressing staff concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Labor Parliament Member Anne Snelgrove challenged the NBH on Monday, saying the charity &#8220;needs to demonstrate that these questions really have come from staff at Number 10.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She also criticized Pratt for going public with the case, saying the helpline was supposed to be confidential.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 4)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is under renewed pressure after an anti-bullying charity revealed that it had been contacted by the premier&#8217;s staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,118],"tags":[5138,5136,708,799,5137],"class_list":["post-4051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-hot","tag-anne-snelgrove","tag-british-gordon-brown","tag-british-prime-minister-gordon-brown","tag-gordon-brown","tag-labor-parliament-member"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051","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=4051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}