{"id":249235,"date":"2025-07-08T23:21:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T23:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/249235\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T23:21:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T23:21:18","slug":"macron-makes-brexit-joke-in-address-to-parliament-during-uk-state-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/249235\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron makes Brexit joke in address to Parliament during UK state visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/emmanuel-macron\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Emmanuel Macron;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Emmanuel Macron<\/a> joked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/bayeux-tapestry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bayeux Tapestry;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bayeux Tapestry<\/a> loan took longer to deliver than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/brexit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Brexit;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Brexit<\/a>, after it was announced on Tuesday (8 July) that the 1000-year-old wall hanging will return to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/uk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UK;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to parliament on his first day of his state visit to the UK, the French president confirmed that the tapestry, which depicts the Norman Conquest of 1066, will be loaned to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/the-british-museum\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the British Museum;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the British Museum<\/a> for a year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt probably took more years to deliver this project than all the Brexit talks\u201d, he said, adding: \u201cThough at the end of the day, we did it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tapestry, one of the world&#8217;s most famous pieces of medieval art, will go on display from September 2026 to July 2027 in The Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emmanuel Macron joked the Bayeux Tapestry loan took longer to deliver than Brexit, after it was announced on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[96279,802,748,34,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,96280,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-249235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-bayeux-tapestry","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-emmanuel-macron","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-norman-conquest","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114820185125570966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249235","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=249235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}