{"id":161,"date":"2007-09-04T15:39:52","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T15:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-finance-zone.co.uk\/politics\/brown-fails-to-end-snap-poll-talk\/"},"modified":"2007-09-04T15:39:52","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T15:39:52","slug":"brown-fails-to-end-snap-poll-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/09\/04\/brown-fails-to-end-snap-poll-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown fails to end snap poll talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"203\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"152\" alt=\"Gordon Brown\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/44093000\/jpg\/_44093534_brown_pa_body.jpg\" width=\"203\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"cap\">Mr Brown took over as prime minister in June<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- E IIMA --><!-- S SF --><strong>Prime Minister Gordon Brown has again refused to rule out an imminent general election, but has said he is focusing on &#8220;getting on with the job&#8221;.<\/strong>Asked to rule out an October election, he said there was &#8220;a time and a place&#8221; to discuss elections &#8211; this was not it.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Brown was asked a number of times to rule out an autumn election during his second prime ministerial news briefing.<\/p>\n<p>He also said Britain would continue to &#8220;discharge our responsibility&#8221; on Iraq, after troops left central Basra. <!-- E SF --><\/p>\n<p>On Monday 550 UK soldiers completed a withdrawal from central Basra to join 5,000 troops at an airbase outside the city, taking up an &#8220;overwatch&#8221; role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Brown took over as prime minister in June Prime Minister Gordon Brown has again refused to rule out an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}