{"id":1061175,"date":"2023-05-29T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2023\/may\/29\/uk-could-break-up-unless-it-is-rebuilt-as-solidarity-union-says-mark-drakeford"},"modified":"2023-05-29T05:00:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T05:00:09","slug":"uk-could-break-up-unless-it-is-rebuilt-as-solidarity-union-says-mark-drakeford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/05\/29\/uk-could-break-up-unless-it-is-rebuilt-as-solidarity-union-says-mark-drakeford\/","title":{"rendered":"UK could break up unless it is rebuilt as \u2018solidarity union\u2019, says Mark Drakeford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: First minister of Wales says bonds that tie UK together have come under \u2018sustained assault\u2019 from 40 years of neoliberalism<\/p><p>The UK could break apart unless it is rebuilt as a \u201csolidarity union\u201d where every citizen\u2019s rights to public services and financial security are protected, the first minister of Wales, has warned.<\/p><p>Mark Drakeford said the social and political bonds that tie the different parts of the UK together have come under \u201csustained assault\u201d from 40 years of neoliberalism, a trend launched by Margaret Thatcher in 1979 and then reinforced after Brexit by Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2023\/may\/29\/uk-could-break-up-unless-it-is-rebuilt-as-solidarity-union-says-mark-drakeford\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2023\/may\/29\/uk-could-break-up-unless-it-is-rebuilt-as-solidarity-union-says-mark-drakeford\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: First minister of Wales says bonds that tie UK together have come under \u2018sustained assault\u2019 from 40 years of neoliberalismThe UK could break apart unless it is rebuilt as a \u201csolidarity union\u201d where every citizen\u2019s rights to public services a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27552,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59777,4397,23001,3385,6,12597,5659,1991,14,474,1314,5623],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061176,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061175\/revisions\/1061176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}