{"id":200626,"date":"2019-12-25T07:19:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T07:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/pm-boris-johnson-in-his-message-calls-on-britons-not-to-have-many-arguments-over-christmas.html"},"modified":"2019-12-25T07:19:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T07:19:09","slug":"pm-boris-johnson-in-his-message-calls-on-britons-not-to-have-many-arguments-over-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/breaking-news\/pm-boris-johnson-in-his-message-calls-on-britons-not-to-have-many-arguments-over-christmas.html","title":{"rendered":"PM Boris Johnson in his message calls on Britons &#8220;not to have many arguments&#8221; over Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"title\">PM Boris Johnson in his message calls on Britons \u0093not to have many arguments\u0094 over Christmas<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/0dd3f_boris-johnson-.jpg\" alt=\"\u0093Hi folks, Boris Johnson here, taking a moment to wish you all a merry little Christmas,\u0094 he said in a video message filmed in front of a tree with baubles\" \/><br \/>\n            <span>\u0093Hi folks, Boris Johnson here, taking a moment to wish you all a merry little Christmas,\u0094 he said in a video message filmed in front of a tree with baubles<\/span>        <\/figure>\n<p>British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged the public on Monday \u0093not to have too many arguments\u0094 over Christmas in a festive message in which he managed to avoid the word Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Hi folks, Boris Johnson here, taking a moment to wish you all a merry little Christmas,\u0094 he said in a video message filmed in front of a tree decorated with baubles and sparkling lights.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u0093I hope you enjoy the next few days. Try not to have too many arguments with the in-laws, or anyone else.\u0094<\/p>\n<p>Britain has been bitterly divided over its future ever since the 2016 referendum vote to leave the European Union, and political wrangling has delayed Brexit three times.<\/p>\n<p>But Johnson won a resounding general election victory earlier this month promising to get it done, and Britain is set to leave on Jan 31.<\/p>\n<p>Despite speaking of little else for months, Brexit did not get a mention in his message -although he urged Britons to \u0093reflect on the year, and celebrate the good that is to come\u0094.<\/p>\n<p>On a more serious note, Johnson highlighted the \u0093inestimable importance\u0094 of Christmas Day to billions of Christians around the world, as the celebration of the birth of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>He offered his solidarity to those facing persecution. \u0093For them, Christmas Day will be marked in private, in secret, perhaps even in a prison cell,\u0094 he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dAs prime minister, that&#8217;s something I want to change. We stand with Christians everywhere, in solidarity, and will defend your right to practice your faith.<\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/2019\/12\/24\/pm-boris-johnson-in-his-message-calls-on-britons-not-to-have-many-arguments-over-christmas?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_content=international&amp;utm_campaign=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM Boris Johnson in his message calls on Britons \u0093not to have many arguments\u0094 over Christmas \u0093Hi folks, Boris Johnson here, taking a moment to wish you all a merry little Christmas,\u0094 he said in a video message filmed in front of a tree with baubles British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged the public on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-200626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}