{"id":58744,"date":"2017-04-20T07:59:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T06:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=58744"},"modified":"2017-04-20T07:59:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T06:59:43","slug":"uk-parliament-backs-snap-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/uk-parliament-backs-snap-election\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Parliament Backs Snap Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A snap general election will be held on June 8 in the U.K. after a majority of lawmakers backed a parliamentary motion approving the vote on Wednesday.<\/h2>\n<p>MPs agreed to the early election by 522 votes to 13, well above the two-thirds majority sought by Prime Minister Theresa May.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the British premier described her move to call a snap election a &#8220;recent and reluctant decision&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to Anadolu Agency, May had opposed the idea of a snap poll since she came to office following the resignation of her Conservative Party predecessor David Cameron over Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>British voters decided to leave the European Union in a referendum last year, signaling the end of the country&#8217;s 44-year membership of the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>Recent opinion polls suggest a clear lead for May\u2019s Conservatives over the main opposition Labour Party.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A snap general election will be held on June 8 in the U.K. after a majority of lawmakers backed a parliamentary motion approving the vote on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118],"tags":[77459,7831],"class_list":["post-58744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","tag-brexit","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58744","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=58744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}