{"id":116868,"date":"2018-08-06T15:42:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T14:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=116868&preview=true&preview_id=116868"},"modified":"2018-08-06T15:42:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T14:42:18","slug":"political-updates-6th-august-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-6th-august-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 6th August 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chris Rampling<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Lebanon\u00a0<\/strong>at the\u00a0Foreign & Commonwealth Office\u00a0<\/strong>(more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Claire Evans\u00a0<\/b>has been appointed British High Commissioner to Belize\u00a0<\/strong>at the\u00a0Foreign & Commonwealth Office\u00a0<\/strong>(more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Lord Blencathra\u00a0<\/b>has been appointed Deputy Chair of Natural England\u00a0<\/strong>at the\u00a0Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs\u00a0<\/strong>(more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

George Lyon<\/strong> and Paul Temple<\/strong> have been reappointed to The\u00a0Agriculture And Horticulture Development Board\u00a0<\/strong>at the\u00a0Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs\u00a0<\/strong>(more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Katrina Nevin-Ridley\u00a0<\/strong>has been named as\u00a0Director of External Relations, Communications and Public Engagement<\/strong>\u00a0of UK Research and Innovation<\/strong> at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy <\/strong>(more info<\/a>).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Karin Smyth<\/strong> has been appointed as\u00a0Shadow Minister for Northern Ireland.\u00a0<\/strong>She remains as Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Commons.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Luke Pollard\u00a0<\/strong>has been appointed\u00a0Shadow Minister for Flooding and Coastal Communities<\/strong> as maternity cover for Holly Lynch.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The House of Commons\u00a0<\/strong>is in recess from 24 July<\/strong> to 4 September.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

The House of Lords <\/strong>is\u00a0in recess from 24 July<\/strong> to 4 September.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Miceal McCoy<\/strong>\u00a0has been reappointed as Chair of the Board of National Museums NI\u00a0<\/strong>at the\u00a0Department for Communities.\u00a0Michael Catto, Garth Earls, Hazel Francey, Leon Litvack, George McIlroy, Catherine Molloy<\/strong> and Margaret Ward<\/strong>\u00a0have been reappointed as members (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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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\/116868"}],"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=116868"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116873,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116868\/revisions\/116873"}],"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=116868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}