{"id":265,"date":"2018-01-23T10:36:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T10:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ilini.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2021-03-08T11:55:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T11:55:23","slug":"when-uk-political-leaders-speak-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/news\/when-uk-political-leaders-speak-french\/","title":{"rendered":"When UK political leaders speak French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago this tweet by British MP Nicholas Soames\u00a0&#8211; Winston Churchill&#8217;s grandson &#8211; caught my attention:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Formidable interview by French President with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewMarr9?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AndrewMarr9<\/a> in perfectEnglish. I have always thought how shaming it is that none of our Leaders could do the same in French <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/languagesmatterandwedondoitwell?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#languagesmatterandwedondoitwell<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nicholas Soames (@NSoames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NSoames\/status\/955012197339533312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>None of them, really? I checked and found the following.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d limit myself to the Queen and prime ministers, but I could not but include a pretty hilarious statement by one 10-Downing Street hopeful.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UK Leaders Speaking French\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dIsteSygvro?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago this tweet by British MP Nicholas Soames\u00a0&#8211; Winston Churchill&#8217;s grandson &#8211; caught my attention: None of them, really? I checked and found the following. I thought I&#8217;d limit myself to the Queen and prime ministers, but I could not but include a pretty hilarious statement by one 10-Downing Street hopeful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-famous-french-speakers","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37.png",1200,665,false],"landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37.png",1200,665,false],"portrait_large":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37.png",1200,665,false],"square_large":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37.png",1200,665,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37.png",600,333,false],"portrait":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37.png",600,333,false],"square":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37.png",600,333,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>A couple of days ago this tweet by British MP Nicholas Soames\u00a0&#8211; Winston Churchill&#8217;s grandson &#8211; caught my attention: Formidable interview by French President with @AndrewMarr9 in perfectEnglish. I have always thought how shaming it is that none of our Leaders could do the same in French #languagesmatterandwedondoitwell &mdash; Nicholas Soames (@NSoames) January 21, 2018&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/category\/famous-french-speakers\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Famous French Speakers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News from Ilini and Friends<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Ilini","url":"https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/author\/ilini\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37.png",1200,665,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37-300x166.png",300,166,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37-768x426.png",768,426,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37-1024x567.png",1024,567,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37.png",1200,665,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37.png",1200,665,false],"xs-thumb":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37.png",64,35,false],"stackable-landscape-large":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37.png",1200,665,false],"stackable-square-large":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37.png",1200,665,false],"stackable-portrait-large":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37.png",1200,665,false],"stackable-landscape":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37.png",600,333,false],"stackable-portrait":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37.png",600,333,false],"stackable-square":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37.png",600,333,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37.png",825,457,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37.png",24,13,false],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37.png",48,27,false],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37.png",96,53,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37.png",150,83,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-d\u2019e\u0301cran-2018-01-22-a\u0300-21.37.37.png",300,166,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Ilini","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ilini.com\/blog\/author\/ilini\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A couple of days ago this tweet by British MP Nicholas Soames\u00a0&#8211; Winston Churchill&#8217;s grandson &#8211; caught my attention: None of them, really? 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