{"id":21269,"date":"2017-12-04T17:15:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T17:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=21269"},"modified":"2017-12-04T17:15:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T17:15:22","slug":"sadiq-khan-teased-on-twitter-for-suggesting-london-could-opt-out-of-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/sadiq-khan-teased-on-twitter-for-suggesting-london-could-opt-out-of-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadiq Khan teased on Twitter for suggesting London could opt out of Brexit."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayor of London has warned of \u201chuge ramifications\u201d if Northern Ireland receive some form of special relationship within the EU after Brexit &#8211; which could include being able to remain in the Single Market and Customs Union.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We in Newcastle also voted Remain. But will our Northern voices nmbe heard? No chance<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jim Corbridge (@MrBonMot) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrBonMot\/status\/937705693813071873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Well you are very close to Scotland &#8211; arrangements might be made!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Natalie Bennett (@natalieben) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/natalieben\/status\/937706076761444352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The UK and EU have failed to reach an agreement within the first round of Brexit negotiations &#8211; including whether a \u201chard boarder\u201d according to the BBC will return between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Sadiq Khan has suggested in the past that he would fight to see London granted a \u2018special status\u2019 in the European Union as \u201cLondoners overwhelmingly voted to remain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>London was the only English city that voted to remain in the EU on June 23rd 2016. Across the country 71% of 18-24 year olds also voted remain according to a YouGov survey.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Khan told BBC Radio 4\u2019s Today Programme: \u201c I think London is different to the rest of the country. Why? Because we are the only region to vote to remain in the EU. Why? Because not only do we need immigration, but we want it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Words: Joshua Hornsey | Subbed: Michael Ward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayor of London has warned of \u201chuge ramifications\u201d if Northern Ireland receive some form of special relationship within the EU after Brexit &#8211; which could include being able to remain in the Single Market&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":21275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}