{"id":116443,"date":"2018-07-16T14:32:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T13:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=116443&preview=true&preview_id=116443"},"modified":"2018-07-16T14:32:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T13:32:34","slug":"political-updates-16th-july-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-16th-july-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 16th July 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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David Davis<\/strong> resigned as Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boris Johnson<\/strong> resigned as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Steve Baker<\/strong> resigned as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Conor Burns<\/strong> resigned as PPS to the Foreign Secretary<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Chris Green<\/strong> resigned as PPS to the Secretary of State for Transport<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Hunt<\/strong> has been named as the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs<\/strong> (formerly Secretary of State for Health and Social Care).<\/p>\n

Matt Hancock <\/strong>has been named as the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care<\/strong>\u00a0(formerly Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport).<\/p>\n

Jeremy Wright<\/strong> has been named as the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport<\/strong> (formerly Attorney General).<\/p>\n

Dominic Raab<\/strong> has been named as the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union<\/strong> (formerly Minister of State for Housing).<\/p>\n

Geoffrey Cox <\/strong>has been named as the Attorney General.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kit Malthouse<\/strong> has been named as Minister of State for Housing<\/strong> (formerly Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Family Support, Housing and Child Maintenance).<\/p>\n

Justin Tomlinson<\/strong> has been named as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Work and Pensions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chris Heaton-Harris<\/strong> has been named as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union<\/strong> (formerly Government Whip).<\/p>\n

Andrew Griffiths <\/strong>resigned as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert Courts <\/strong>resigned as PPS to the Foreign Secretary.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scott Mann <\/strong>resigned as PPS to the Treasury. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Owen Derbyshire, Anita George and Rhodri Williams <\/strong>have been appointed as members of the S4C Authority<\/strong> at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Brett Wigdortz <\/strong>has been appointed as Chair of National Citizen Service Trust<\/strong> at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Kavita Puri <\/strong>has been appointed as a Trustee of Victoria and Albert Museum<\/strong> at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Rashmi Becker <\/strong>has been appointed to the Board as a Trustee of Sport England<\/strong> at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

John Crabtree <\/strong>has been appointed as Chair of the 2022 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee<\/strong> at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Mr Chris Rampling MBE<\/strong> has been appointed as Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Lebanon<\/strong> at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Sir John Timpson<\/strong> has been appointed as Chair of the Expert Advisory Panel on High Streets<\/strong> at the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Martina Milburn <\/strong>has been endorsed to become Chair of the Social Mobility Commission <\/strong>at the Cabinet Office.<\/strong> (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Terry Morgan <\/strong>has been appointed as Chair of High Speed 2 Ltd <\/strong>at the Department for Transport.<\/strong> (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Leslie Manasseh <\/strong>has been reappointed to the body of the Prison Service Pay Review Body<\/strong> at the Ministry of Justice. <\/strong>(more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Andy King <\/strong>has been appointed to be a lead member of the committee of the Office for Budget Responsibility<\/strong> at HM Treasury. (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

David Southwood<\/strong> has been reappointed as Chair of the UK Space Agency Steering Board<\/strong> at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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House of Commons<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Jared O’Mara <\/strong>has resigned from the Labour Party.<\/p>\n

Martyn Day<\/strong> has replaced Douglas Chapman<\/strong> as a member of the European Scrutiny Committee<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Douglas Chapman <\/strong>has replaced Martyn Day<\/strong> as a member of the Public Accounts Committee<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Ben Bradley <\/strong>has resigned as Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party for Youth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maria Caulfield <\/strong>has resigned as Conservative Party<\/strong> Vice Chairman for Women.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mike Amesbury <\/strong>has been appointed as Labour’s Shadow Employment Minister.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jo Platt<\/strong> has been appointed as Labour’s Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Naz Shah<\/strong> has been appointed as Labour’s Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

House of\u00a0Lords<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Conservative Lord Carrington<\/strong> has died.<\/p>\n

Liberal Democrat Lord Fearn<\/strong> has retired.<\/p>\n

Crossbench Baroness Boycott<\/strong> has entered the House of Lords as a life peer.<\/p>\n

Crossbench Lord Anderson of Ipswich<\/strong> has entered the House of Lords as a life peer.<\/p>\n

Crossbench Baroness Bull<\/strong> has entered the House of Lords as a life peer.<\/p>\n

Crossbench The Earl of Devon <\/strong>has entered the House of Lords as a life peer.<\/p>\n

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European Parliament<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This week, the European Parliament will be in Brussels for Committee meetings and Group meetings.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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":109831,"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\/116443"}],"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=116443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116445,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116443\/revisions\/116445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}