{"id":29987,"date":"2011-12-22T03:25:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T03:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_sir_gus_odonnell_the_uk_faces_break-up_not_many_years_from_now\/"},"modified":"2011-12-22T03:25:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T03:25:48","slug":"telegraph_sir_gus_odonnell_the_uk_faces_break-up_not_many_years_from_now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29987","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Sir Gus O\u2019Donnell: The UK faces break-up not many years from now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s most senior civil servant Sir Gus O\u2019Donnell has publicly questioned whether the United Kingdom will still exist in a few years\u2019 time.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in The Telegraph, Sir Gus O\u2019Donnell asks whether the Union can survive increasing pressure for Scottish independence.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Gus, who is the head of more than 440,000 civil servants in England, Scotland and Wales, says the future of the Union is one of several \u201cenormous challenges\u201d\u009d facing the political establishment in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/politics\/8971787\/Sir-Gus-ODonnell-The-UK-faces-break-up.html\">Read it all and follow the link to the full op-ed piece also<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s most senior civil servant Sir Gus O\u2019Donnell has publicly questioned whether the United Kingdom will still exist in a few years\u2019 time. Writing in The Telegraph, Sir Gus O\u2019Donnell asks whether the Union can survive increasing pressure for Scottish<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29987\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,199,133,151,326],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-history","category-politics-in-general","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}