{"id":2476,"date":"2018-10-23T12:31:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2476"},"modified":"2018-10-23T12:31:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:31:57","slug":"defending-those-who-defended-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2476","title":{"rendered":"Defending those who defended us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael today joined fellow Conservative colleagues to deliver a letter to the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street, calling on the Government to stop the witch-hunt into our Northern Ireland veterans.<\/p>\n<p>The letter, entitled &#8216;Defending those who defended us&#8217;, opposes the proposed new Historical Investigations Unit, which would re-open cases against veterans that have already been investigated.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Michael said: &#8220;There can be no moral equivalence between our ex-servicemen and women who fought to defend us, and terrorists who wanted to do us harm. We must stop the hounding of our veterans, many of whom are now in their 70s and 80s &#8211; and\u00a0defend those who defended us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2477\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2477\" style=\"width: 2448px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=2477\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2477\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2477\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Michael-signs-NI-Veterans-letter-to-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Michael signs the letter to the Prime Minister \" width=\"2448\" height=\"3264\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Michael-signs-NI-Veterans-letter-to-PM.jpg 2448w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Michael-signs-NI-Veterans-letter-to-PM-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Michael-signs-NI-Veterans-letter-to-PM-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Michael-signs-NI-Veterans-letter-to-PM-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael signs the letter to the Prime Minister<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael today joined fellow Conservative colleagues to deliver a letter to the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street, calling on the Government to stop the witch-hunt into our Northern Ireland veterans. The letter, entitled &#8216;Defending those who defended us&#8217;, opposes the proposed new Historical Investigations Unit, which would re-open cases against veterans that have already &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2476\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Defending those who defended us&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[675,890,889,836],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions\/2478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}