{"id":4019,"date":"2012-11-08T08:46:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T08:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/andrew-mitchell-defends-aid-to-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2012-11-08T08:45:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T08:45:31","slug":"andrew-mitchell-defends-aid-to-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/andrew-mitchell-defends-aid-to-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Mitchell Defends Aid to Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Andrew Mitchell has denied acting as a &#8220;rogue minister&#8221; as he defended unfreezing \u00a316m in aid for Rwanda on his last day as International Development Secretary.}}<\/p>\n<p>The senior Tory, who recently quit as Chief Whip after a row with a police officer, insisted the decision was made collectively by the Government.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing before the International Development Select Committee, he argued that it was made with &#8220;absolute propriety&#8221; and criticised &#8220;heated&#8221; media coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Number 10 and the Foreign Office were &#8220;kept in the loop&#8221;, he told MPs, and denied Britain had &#8220;gone out on a limb&#8221; by continuing its support of Rwanda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Andrew Mitchell has denied acting as a &#8220;rogue minister&#8221; as he defended unfreezing \u00a316m in aid for Rwanda on his last day as International Development Secretary.}} The senior Tory, who recently quit as Chief Whip after a row with a police officer, insisted the decision was made collectively by the Government. Appearing before the International [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-4019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=4019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}