{"id":209605,"date":"2025-06-24T05:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T05:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209605\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T05:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T05:51:12","slug":"on-this-day-st-albans-and-harpenden-mps-reacted-one-year-after-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209605\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: St Albans and Harpenden MPs reacted one year after Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Brexiteer and St Albans MP at the time Anne Main, addressed the House of Commons, stating, &#8220;I think it behoves us all, whichever side of the argument we were on, to recognise that, overwhelmingly, the country voted to proceed with its decision to leave the European Union.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She emphasised the need for parliamentarians to scrutinize legislation closely, asserting, &#8220;If we don\u2019t play political games with Brexit then I am confident that we can get the best possible outcome for our country.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Meanwhile, Harpenden MP and Remain voter, Bim Afolami, highlighted the importance of government input from businesses, saying, &#8220;I am keen to hear from as wide a variety of voices as possible.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The discussions also touched on the contentious issues surrounding the final Brexit deal and the potential retention of EU benefits.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  [From the Herts Advertiser of June 23, 2017]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brexiteer and St Albans MP at the time Anne Main, addressed the House of Commons, stating, &#8220;I think&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-209605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114736783961630857","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}