{"id":153918,"date":"2026-07-02T17:16:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153918"},"modified":"2026-07-02T17:16:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:16:43","slug":"its-coming-home-in-the-wee-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153918","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s coming home &#8230; in the wee hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics<\/p>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will pass a last-minute law allowing pubs to remain open and keep doling out the booze during England\u2019s next World Cup match in the early hours of Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>His local government secretary, Steve Reed, had been urging councils to allow the move, but some were still holding out.<\/p>\n<p>After pressure from opposition lawmakers in the House of Commons Thursday, Starmer announced pubs will be able to remain open until 5 a.m. U.K. time \u2014 with the government tweaking licensing rules on Friday so establishments don\u2019t need to ask local councils first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFootball might be coming home but we\u2019re making sure fans don\u2019t have to,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/pubs-to-stay-open-for-sunday-nights-england-v-mexico-world-cup-match\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starmer said.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/07\/02\/world-cup-2026\/its-coming-home-in-the-wee-hours-00986016\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>Politics, World Cup<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics LONDON \u2014 British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will pass a last-minute law allowing pubs to remain open and keep doling out the booze during England\u2019s next World Cup&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153918"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}