{"id":11434,"date":"2017-02-10T12:48:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T12:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=11434"},"modified":"2017-02-10T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T16:05:00","slug":"come-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=11434","title":{"rendered":"Come clean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite general secretary Len McCluskey today (February 10) called on government ministers to come clean over a <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.businessinsider.com\/brexit-government-support-industries-ranked-high-priority-low-leaked-document-2017-2?r=US&amp;IR=T\">leaked list dividing British industries<\/a> into high, medium and low priority in the Brexit negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The leaked list described as \u00e2\u20ac\u015bdynamite\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Times newspaper describes the beleaguered steel industry as a low priority.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>McCluskey called on the government to make it crystal clear that the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s working men and women will not be the biggest losers from a Tory Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe report today that great swathes of UK industry do not make it into the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s high priority category for the Brexit negotiations will cause tremendous anxiety among working people,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIndustries like oil and gas and steel ought to sit at the heart of our future plans out of the European Union, not quietly forgotten as other sectors are given top governmental priority.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThese leaks will give truth to concerns that a Tory Brexit is one of rewards for the City of London but neglect for the cities and towns of Britainm&#8221; McCluskey added. &#8220;They also make a nonsense of the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s professed desire to develop an industrial strategy to rebalance the economy.\u00c2\u00a0 How can this be achieved if our government turns its back on core industries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe government must come clean now and make it crystal clear that the working men and women of the UK will not be the biggest losers from a Tory Brexit.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite general secretary Len McCluskey today (February 10) called on government ministers to come clean over a leaked list dividing British industries into high, medium and low priority in the Brexit negotiations. &nbsp; The leaked list described as \u00e2\u20ac\u015bdynamite\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Times newspaper describes the beleaguered steel industry as a low priority. &nbsp; McCluskey called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"Unite GS demands answers over leaked Brexit list","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11436,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11434\/revisions\/11436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}