{"id":2323,"date":"2020-09-10T11:33:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T11:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2020-09-16T11:36:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T11:36:14","slug":"professor-richard-whitman-comments-on-the-uk-threat-to-renege-on-the-brexit-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/09\/10\/professor-richard-whitman-comments-on-the-uk-threat-to-renege-on-the-brexit-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Richard Whitman comments on the UK threat to renege on the Brexit deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comment from<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2271\/whitman-richard-g\"> Professor Richard Whitman<\/a> is included in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ie\/news\/world\/the-uk-threatens-to-renege-on-the-brexit-deal-it-signed-with-the-eu-just-a-year-ago\/ar-BB18SekX\">article for MSN News<\/a> about the UK&#8217;s Brexit agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The United Kingdom is threatening to renege on parts of its\u00a0Brexit agreement\u00a0with the European Union, potentially violating international law and\u00a0upending trade negotiations\u00a0with the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the UK government introduced the\u00a0UK Internal Market Bill, an anodyne-sounding piece of legislation that\u2019s anything but. The bill targets a specific part of the\u00a0EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement, otherwise known as the Brexit deal \u2014 the same deal that Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u00a0struck with the European Union last October, which ultimately allowed the UK to leave the\u00a0EU with a deal on January 31, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment from Professor Richard Whitman is included in this article for MSN News about the UK&#8217;s Brexit agreement. The United Kingdom is threatening to renege &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/09\/10\/professor-richard-whitman-comments-on-the-uk-threat-to-renege-on-the-brexit-deal\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67700,"featured_media":2324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,131001,131000,131002,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2357,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions\/2357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}