{"id":10250,"date":"2024-03-26T15:24:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T15:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/26\/are-you-part-of-the-deep-state-prime-minister\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T15:24:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T15:24:25","slug":"are-you-part-of-the-deep-state-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/26\/are-you-part-of-the-deep-state-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Are you part of the deep state, prime minister?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/1920\/production\/_133023460_p0hm0fhz.jpg?fit=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"&#8216;Are you part of the deep state, prime minister?&#8217;\" title=\"&#8216;Are you part of the deep state, prime minister?&#8217;\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The PM has laughed off a question about whether he is part of the \u201cdeep state\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked by Conservative MP William Wragg about former PM Liz Truss&#8217;s claims she was undermined by the \u201cdeep state\u201d, he repeatedly said it was a \u201cquestion for her\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he went on to joke to MPs on the Liaison Committee that he would not be able to say if he was part of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Truss told Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in the US that her efforts to cut taxes during her brief period in Downing Street were \u201csabotaged\u201d by \u201cthe deep state\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/uk-politics-68661991\" class=\"ssrcss-1j7tryj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Anyone in UK illegally can&#8217;t stay, Sunak tells MPs<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PM has laughed off a question about whether he is part of the \u201cdeep state\u201d. Asked by Conservative MP William Wragg about former PM Liz Truss&#8217;s claims she was undermined by the \u201cdeep state\u201d, he repeatedly said it was a \u201cquestion for her\u201d. But he went on to joke to MPs on the Liaison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/1920\/production\/_133023460_p0hm0fhz.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[2481,2124,3651,8088,2480],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10252,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10250\/revisions\/10252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}