{"id":1655,"date":"2020-06-01T18:57:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T18:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2020-06-01T18:57:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T18:57:14","slug":"public-trust-in-uk-government-over-coronavirus-falls-sharply-world-news-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=1655","title":{"rendered":"Public trust in UK government over coronavirus falls sharply | World news | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Public trust in the UK government as a source of accurate information about the coronavirus has collapsed in recent weeks, suggesting ministers may struggle to maintain lockdown restrictions in the aftermath of the Dominic Cummings affair.According to surveys conducted on behalf of the University of Oxford\u2019s Reuters Institute by YouGov, less than half of Britons now trust the Westminster government to provide correct information on the pandemic \u2013 down from more than two-thirds of the public in mid-April.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/01\/public-trust-in-uk-government-over-coronavirus-falls-sharply\">Public trust in UK government over coronavirus falls sharply | World news | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public trust in the UK government as a source of accurate information about the coronavirus has collapsed in recent weeks, suggesting ministers may struggle to maintain lockdown restrictions in the aftermath of the Dominic Cummings affair.According to surveys conducted on behalf of the University of Oxford\u2019s Reuters Institute by YouGov, less than half of Britons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1656,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}