{"id":218976,"date":"2025-02-15T21:04:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T21:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-has-a-former-tory-mp-decide-to-serve-in-ukraines-military-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-02-15T21:04:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T21:04:37","slug":"why-has-a-former-tory-mp-decide-to-serve-in-ukraines-military-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-has-a-former-tory-mp-decide-to-serve-in-ukraines-military-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Why has a former Tory MP decide to serve in Ukraine\u2019s military? | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/VyToKivdTwI\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Why has a former Tory MP decide to serve in Ukraine\u2019s military? | BBC News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VyToKivdTwI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Jack Lopresti, a former Conservative MP, has made headlines for announcing he\u2019s moved to Ukraine to serve in the country\u2019s military.<\/p>\n<p>He explains to the BBC\u2019s Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko why he came to that decision.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full episode here: https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p0kqlfss<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#Ukrainecast #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Lopresti, a former Conservative MP, has made headlines for announcing he\u2019s moved to Ukraine to serve in the country\u2019s military. 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Listen to the full episode here: https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p0kqlfss For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news #Ukrainecast #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":218977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128810],"tags":[128872,128954,144864],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-218976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bbc-news","tag-former","tag-jack","tag-lopresti"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why has a former Tory MP decide to serve in Ukraine\u2019s military? | BBC News | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Why has a former Tory MP decide to serve in Ukraine\u2019s military? | BBC News for free, here on News ISC. 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