{"id":40191,"date":"2019-07-21T17:22:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T17:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40191"},"modified":"2019-07-21T17:22:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T17:22:16","slug":"uk-finance-minister-to-resign-if-johnson-becomes-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40191","title":{"rendered":"UK finance minister to resign if Johnson becomes PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London (CNN)<\/cite>The UK&#8217;s finance minister Philip Hammond has vowed to resign if Conservative Party leadership hopeful <a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/07\/13\/uk\/boris-johnson-profile-world-king-intl-gbr\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boris Johnson<\/a> becomes the next prime minister, as expected.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Asked by the BBC&#8217;s Andrew Marr if he thought he would be sacked this week, Hammond replied: &#8220;No, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not going to be sacked because I&#8217;m going to resign before we get to that point.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;Assuming that Boris Johnson becomes the next prime minister, I understand that his conditions for serving in his government would include accepting a <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/07\/17\/uk\/theresa-may-last-major-speech-gbr-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">no-deal exit <\/a>[of the European Union] on the 31st of October, and it&#8217;s not something I could ever sign up to.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN)The UK&#8217;s finance minister Philip Hammond has vowed to resign if Conservative Party leadership hopeful Boris Johnson becomes the next prime minister, as expected.Asked by the BBC&#8217;s Andrew Marr if he thought he would be sacked this week, Hammond replied: &#8220;No, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not going to be sacked because I&#8217;m going to resign&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}