{"id":153988,"date":"2026-07-03T19:16:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T19:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153988"},"modified":"2026-07-03T19:16:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T19:16:05","slug":"police-unamused-by-starmers-5-am-pub-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153988","title":{"rendered":"Police unamused by Starmer\u2019s 5 am pub call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics<\/p>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 Not everyone is happy that Prime Minister Keir Starmer decided to keep pubs open until 5 a.m. Monday for screenings of the England match against Mexico. <\/p>\n<p>The National Police Chiefs\u2019 Council complained that the \u201clate announcement\u201d means officers will be removed from other duties and work longer hours, despite the World Cup fixtures having \u201cbeen known for a considerable time.\u201d It\u2019s the literal fun police.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the PM said that it wasn\u2019t known until Wednesday that England would progress to this point in the competition and that the government has been liaising with police throughout. But team Starmer won\u2019t mind the cops reminding England fans who want to be in the pub at 4 a.m. that the PM is on their side.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/07\/03\/world-cup-2026\/downing-street-pub-closing-time-england-mexico-00986960\" 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 Not everyone is happy that Prime Minister Keir Starmer decided to keep pubs open until 5 a.m. Monday for screenings of the England match against Mexico.&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\/153988"}],"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=153988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}