{"id":100056,"date":"2017-02-13T10:41:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T10:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=100056&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=100056"},"modified":"2019-09-10T15:38:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:38:14","slug":"political-updates-13th-february-2017-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-13th-february-2017-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 13th February 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99277 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3.png\" alt=\"Political-Updates-Logo-3\" width=\"760\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3.png 760w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3-705x264.png 705w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3-450x169.png 450w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3-500x188.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">This week&#8217;s\u00a0Political Updates, covers moves and changes at all levels of government.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div   class='hr hr-full hr-no-shadow   avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-96460 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/House-of-Commons-Logo.png\" alt=\"house-of-commons-logo\" width=\"86\" height=\"106\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>House of Commons<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This week the House of Commons is in recess.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Clive Lewis<\/strong> resigned as Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.<\/li>\n<li><b>Ian Lavery\u00a0<\/b>has replaced\u00a0<strong>Jon Trickett<\/strong> as Labour&#8217;s Election Coordinator.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rebecca Long-Bailey\u00a0<\/strong>has been appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sue Hayman<\/strong> has been appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Christina Rees<\/strong> has been appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Wales.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peter Dowd<\/strong> has been appointed Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury.<\/li>\n<li>A motion of confidence in the Speaker <strong>John Bercow<\/strong>\u00a0has been tabled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Select Committees<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>International Development<\/strong> &#8211; Ivan Lewis (LAB) joined; Albert Owen (LAB) left.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-96461 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/House-of-Lords-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"house-of-lords-logo\" width=\"107\" height=\"105\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>House of Lords<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This week the House of Lords is in recess.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lord Gadhia<\/strong> has resigned the Conservative Party Whip, he joined the Lords in August 2016.<\/li>\n<li>There will be hereditary peer by-election on the\u00a0<strong>21st March 2017.\u00a0<\/strong>This is to fill the hereditary seat left vacant by the death of Lord Lyell at the start of the year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Select Committees<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Human Rights<\/strong>: Baroness O&#8217;Cathain joined.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Scottish-Parliament-Logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-96464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Scottish-Parliament-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"scottish-parliament-logo\" width=\"123\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Scottish Parliament<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Newly approved Cross Party Groups<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Commercial Sexual Exploitation<\/strong> &#8211; Ash Denham (Convener)<\/li>\n<li><strong>End of Life of Choices<\/strong> &#8211; George Adam (Convener)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Heart Disease and Stroke<\/strong> &#8211; Maree Todd\u00a0(Convener)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<strong>Local Government<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Kevin Price<\/strong> has been selected as the Labour candidate for Mayor of Peterborough and Cambridgeshire.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-96459 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/European-Parliament-Logo.png\" alt=\"european-parliament-logo\" width=\"198\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>European Parliament<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This week the Members of the European Parliament will be based in <strong>Strasbourg<\/strong> for the Plenary Session.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Party News<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>UKIP\u00a0<\/strong>are holding their Spring Conference this\u00a0<strong>Friday 17th February.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Political Updates covers moves and changes at all levels of government: local, devolved, national and, supranational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":406,"featured_media":99279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7341],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100056"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124355,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100056\/revisions\/124355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}