{"id":102105,"date":"2017-04-18T08:58:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T08:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=102105&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=102105"},"modified":"2019-09-10T15:35:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:35:33","slug":"political-updates-18th-april-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-18th-april-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 18th April 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><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Prime Minister\u00a0Theresa May has\u00a0announced plans to call a snap general election on 8 June.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>House of Commons<\/strong> returned from recess on the\u00a0<strong>18th April.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Professor Francis Davis,<\/strong> who is the\u00a0Professor of Communities and Public Policy at the University of Birmingham, has been appointed to the\u00a0<strong>Office for Disability\u00a0Issues<\/strong> (ODI) by <strong>Penny Mordaunt<\/strong>, Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Philip Rycroft\u00a0<\/strong>has taken up a role as Second Permanent Secretary at the <strong>Department for Exiting the European Union.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Professor Julius Weinberg\u00a0<\/strong>has been appointed as the next Chair of <strong>Ofsted<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Julian Knight\u00a0<\/strong>has been discharged from the Communities and Local Government Committee and has been replaced by\u00a0<strong>Christopher Chope.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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<div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">The <strong>House of Lords<\/strong>\u00a0is in recess and returns on the <strong>24th April.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\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 <strong>Scottish Parliament\u00a0<\/strong>returned from recess on the\u00a0<strong>17th April<\/strong>.<\/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>Talks aimed at restoring a power-sharing cross community government in <strong>Northern Ireland<\/strong> were given a deadline of <strong>18th April.\u00a0<\/strong>At this point, there is still a lack of agreement between the parties.\u00a0Sources at the talks have described the government\u2019s planned moves if the negotiations fail as \u201cdirect rule by stealth\u201d.<\/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<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>This week the Members of the European Parliament will be\u00a0undertaking activities outside the Parliament. They will work either in their constituency in their home country, where they have the opportunity to interact with their electorate, or in Parliamentary delegations, responsible for maintaining relations with non-EU countries.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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\/102105"}],"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=102105"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124342,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102105\/revisions\/124342"}],"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=102105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}