{"id":100523,"date":"2017-02-27T10:16:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T10:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=100523&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=100523"},"modified":"2019-09-10T15:37:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:37:34","slug":"political-updates-27th-february-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-27th-february-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 27th 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<ul>\n<li><strong>Graham Brady<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>MP<\/strong> has been appointed Deputy Chair of the Centre for Policy Studies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Copeland by-election<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Trudy Harrison\u00a0<\/strong>won the seat on <strong>23rd February\u00a0<\/strong>for the Conservative Party, with 13,748 votes and a majority of 2,147.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Stoke Central by-election<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gareth Snell<\/strong> won the seat on\u00a0<strong>23rd February<\/strong> for the Labour Party, with 7,853 votes and a majority 2,620.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Select Committees<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Women and Equalities &#8211;<\/strong> Ruth Cadbury (Lab) left; Holly Lynch (Lab) joined.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Procedure &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong> Holly Lynch (Lab) left; Chris Elmore (Lab) joined.<\/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<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Lord Dixon<\/strong> has passed away. He was a member of the Lords between 1997 and 2016.<\/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>Dementia &#8211;<\/strong> Richard Lyle (SNP)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beer and Pubs &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Patrick Harvie \u00a0(Scottish Green Party)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Northern-Ireland-Assembly-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-96463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Northern-Ireland-Assembly-Logo.png\" alt=\"northern-ireland-assembly-logo\" width=\"107\" height=\"96\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Northern Ireland Assembly<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The election for the Assembly is this\u00a0<strong>Thursday 2nd March.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The number of MLAs is being reduced from 108 to 90 members.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<strong>Local Government<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mark Rogers\u00a0<\/strong>is leaving his position as Chief Executive of\u00a0<strong>Birmingham City Council.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Andrew Lloyd\u00a0<\/strong> has retired as Chief Executive of\u00a0<strong>Rushmoor Borough Council.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>David Flagg (Con)<\/strong> has been elected Leader of\u00a0<strong>Christchurch Borough Council\u00a0<\/strong>following a motion of no confidence in former leader Ray Nottage.<\/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> Brussels<\/strong> for Committee and Group meetings, and a Plenary meeting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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\/100523"}],"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=100523"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124351,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100523\/revisions\/124351"}],"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=100523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}