{"id":104135,"date":"2017-06-12T08:51:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T08:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=104135&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=104135"},"modified":"2019-09-10T15:33:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:33:35","slug":"political-updates-12th-june-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-12th-june-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 12th June 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>Results of the UK General Election<\/p>\n<table width=\"575\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"144\"><strong><u>Party<\/u><\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"144\"><strong><u>Seats won<\/u><\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"144\"><strong><u>Seat Change<\/u><\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"144\"><strong><u>Votes share<\/u><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"144\">Conservative<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">318<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">-13<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">42.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"144\">Labour<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">262<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">+30<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">40.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"144\">SNP<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">35<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">-21<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">3.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"144\">Lib Dem<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">12<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">+4<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">7.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"144\">DUP<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">10<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">+2<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">0.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"144\">Other<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">13<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">-2<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">6.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Parliament is expected to turn on the 13th June 2017 for the election of the speaker. Swearing in of MPs will take place on subsequent days.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\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<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3><strong>House of Lords<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>House of Lords <\/strong>will\u00a0return on <strong>Monday 19th June<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Devolved Institutions<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-96464 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Scottish-Parliament-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"scottish-parliament-logo\" width=\"145\" height=\"118\" \/>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Scottish Parliament<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>John Lamont<\/strong> was elected as a Member of Parliament for <strong>Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk,<\/strong>\u00a0standing down from\u00a0his seat in the Scottish Parliament.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ross Thompson<\/strong> was elected as a Member of Parliament for <strong>Aberdeen South,\u00a0<\/strong>standing down from\u00a0his seat in the Scottish Parliament.<\/li>\n<li><b>Douglas Ross\u00a0<\/b>was elected as a Member of Parliament for <strong>Moray,\u00a0<\/strong>standing down from\u00a0his seat in the Scottish Parliament.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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><strong>Northern Ireland<\/strong> has until the 29th June to reach an agreement that will restore a power-sharing devolved executive.<\/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<h3><strong>European Parliament<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><i>This week will be dedicated to political group meetings in Strasbourg.<\/i><\/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\/104135"}],"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=104135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124333,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104135\/revisions\/124333"}],"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=104135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}