{"id":101361,"date":"2017-03-27T10:22:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T10:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=101361&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=101361"},"modified":"2019-09-10T15:36:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:36:14","slug":"political-updates-27th-march-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-27th-march-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 27th March 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>UKIP MP for Clacton, Douglas Carswell<\/strong>, has quit the party after serving as\u00a0the first elected MP for UKIP\u00a0since 2014. He will now sit as an independent\u00a0and has announced that he is against holding a by-election despite pressure from UKIP to do so.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tobias Ellwood MP<\/strong> and <strong>Ben Wallace MP\u00a0<\/strong>have been appointed as members of <strong>Her Majesty&#8217;s Most Honorable Privy Council<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Theresa May<\/strong>\u00a0will formally begin the process for the UK&#8217;s withdrawal from\u00a0the European Union by triggering <strong>Article 50<\/strong> on 29th March.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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>&nbsp;<\/p>\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<ul>\n<li>The Scottish Parliament has nominated <strong>Bruce Adamson<\/strong> to be the new <strong>Commissioner for Children and Young People in Scotland<\/strong>. He will be formally appointed to the position in May.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Theresa May<\/strong> will meet <strong>First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon\u00a0<\/strong>today for the first time since Sturgeon demanded a second independence vote and for the last time before triggering Article 50. This is part of May&#8217;s tour of all four UK nations before Brexit is formally triggered.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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><strong>Former Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland and Sinn F\u00e9in Party Leader, Martin McGuinness<\/strong>, passed away on 21st March.<\/li>\n<li>Following the Northern Ireland Assembly election that took place on\u00a0the 2nd March, the\u00a0<strong>deadline for the formation of a new power-sharing executive<\/strong> is set at 4.00 pm today. If an agreement is not reached (which looks likely after yesterday&#8217;s talks at Stormont collapsed), today&#8217;s Assembly session to appoint a First and Deputy First Minister will be suspended.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h3>\n<div>\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<ul>\n<li>The European Union is celebrating the <strong>60th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome<\/strong>. European Parliament Leaders participated\u00a0in the celebrations\u00a0that took place in Rome on Saturday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>This week the Members of the European Parliament will be based in <strong>Brussels<\/strong>\u00a0for C<strong>ommittee meetings<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/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":423,"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\/101361"}],"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\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101361"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124345,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101361\/revisions\/124345"}],"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=101361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}