{"id":6074,"date":"2017-04-19T12:39:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T12:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=6074"},"modified":"2017-04-19T12:39:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T12:39:45","slug":"british-mps-set-to-approve-pm-mays-june-8-election-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2017\/04\/19\/british-mps-set-to-approve-pm-mays-june-8-election-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"British MPs set to approve PM May&#8217;s June 8 election plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British parliament was expected on Wednesday to formally approve Prime Minister Theresa May&#8217;s plan to hold an early election on June 8 she hopes will deliver a stronger personal mandate as she embarks on Brexit talks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>May, who took over as prime minister without an election in the political turmoil that followed Britain&#8217;s vote to leave the European Union last June, made the surprise announcement on Tuesday that she wanted to hold a snap election.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The main opposition Labour Party welcomed May&#8217;s election call, meaning that it is almost a foregone conclusion that May will obtain the two thirds support she needs in the House of Commons for the election to be held.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Opinion polls suggest May&#8217;s Conservatives are enjoying a huge lead over Labour. &#8220;May heads for election landslide&#8221; was the front-page headline in Wednesday&#8217;s edition of The Times newspaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British parliament was expected on Wednesday to formally approve Prime Minister Theresa May&rsquo;s plan to hold an early election on June 8 she hopes will deliver a stronger personal mandate as she embarks on Brexit talks. &nbsp; May, who took over as prime minister without an election in the political turmoil that followed Britain&rsquo;s vote to leave the European Union last June, made the surprise announcement on Tuesday that she wanted to hold a snap election. &nbsp; The main opposition Labour Party welcomed May&rsquo;s election call, meaning that it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6076,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6074\/revisions\/6076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}