{"id":1563161,"date":"2022-07-20T15:29:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T19:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1563161"},"modified":"2022-07-20T15:34:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T19:34:29","slug":"fact-check-was-u-k-trade-minister-penny-mordaunt-pictured-wearing-military-style-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-was-u-k-trade-minister-penny-mordaunt-pictured-wearing-military-style-medals\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Was U.K. Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt Pictured Wearing Military-Style Medals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-was-u-k-trade-minister-penny-mordaunt-pictured-wearing-military-style-medals%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1563161&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2018-11-13T113006Z_375103915_RC1AB9E81900_RTRMADP_3_BRITAIN-EU-scaled-e1658258033214.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hawkins_carole\/status\/1548603059886256128\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Twitter<\/a> purportedly shows U.K. Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt wearing military-style medals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What are these medals do they belong to her grandfather? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Uj0UuP5dZo\">pic.twitter.com\/Uj0UuP5dZo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Carole Hawkins (@hawkins_carole) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hawkins_carole\/status\/1548603059886256128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The image is altered. Mordaunt is not wearing any medals in the original photo.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced July 7 that he would resign as soon as the Conservative Party chooses a successor, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/boris-johnson-resignation-60da3c4b29a4e9c93c7db9f53034ad0e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Associated Press<\/a>. Mordaunt was one of several politicians who ran to replace him, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-politics-60037657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC News<\/a>. She has since been eliminated from the contest, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>An image circulating on social media appears to show her wearing military-style medals. \u201cWhat are these medals do they belong to her grandfather?\u201d reads the caption of one such post shared widely on Twitter. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/02\/04\/fact-check-image-uk-document-government-ministers-destroy-businesses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Image Show A UK Cabinet Office Document Telling Government Ministers How To Destroy Businesses?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In reality, the image has been digitally altered. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/factcheck-mordaunt-medals\/fact-check-image-of-penny-mordaunt-wearing-military-medals-is-digitally-altered-idUSL1N2YZ1EO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a> published the original version showing Mordaunt without any medals. The outlet also indicated that it was taken as she left London\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/prime-ministers-office-10-downing-street\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10 Downing Street<\/a> in November 2018. At the time of the photo, Mordaunt was serving as the international development secretary after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/blog\/live\/2017\/nov\/09\/theresa-may-under-pressure-to-replace-patel-with-brexit-enthusiast-politics-live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appointed<\/a> to the position in November 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and former Chancellor Rishi Sunak are currently the only two candidates still in the running to replace Johnson, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-politics-60037657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC News<\/a>. Conservative Party members will vote to decide who gets the nod, with the new prime minister expected to be announced by Sept. 5, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The medals were photoshopped into the picture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}