{"id":118952,"date":"2018-11-12T16:14:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T15:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=118952&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=118952"},"modified":"2018-11-12T17:38:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T16:38:30","slug":"political-updates-12-november-2018-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-12-november-2018-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 12 November 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<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<h3><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/3b\/3c\/f2\/3b3cf2ebb2512bba3588c935619f2e71--british-government-british-invasion.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for uk government logo\" width=\"89\" height=\"73\" \/>\u00a0 <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Government\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Jo Johnson <\/strong>resigned as <strong>Minister of State for Transport<\/strong> and <strong>Minister for London.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Government departments<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Jeff Glekin <\/strong>has been appointed <strong>Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the Plurinational State of Bolivia <\/strong>at the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-bolivia-in-january-2019?utm_source=82a5ab85-e2fe-4271-b620-160bfdd739b4&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&amp;utm_content=immediate\">more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr Charles Hay MVO<\/strong> has been appointed<strong> British High Commissioner to Malaysia<\/strong> at the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/change-of-british-high-commissioner-to-malaysia-in-april-2019?utm_source=78b4000a-61f5-42ae-8212-591130d7bbb8&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&amp;utm_content=immediate\">more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marian Spain<\/strong> has been appointed <strong>interim Chief Executive of Natural England <\/strong>at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/marian-spain-appointed-interim-chief-executive-of-natural-england-as-james-cross-steps-down?utm_source=b3e9d417-e105-4de7-8073-286a4f30d761&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&amp;utm_content=immediate\">more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marcus Harling, Professor Shearer West <\/strong>and<strong> Jonathan Yeo <\/strong>have been appointed as <strong>Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery<\/strong> at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media &amp; Sport (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/trustees-appointed-to-the-national-portrait-gallery?utm_source=4a21a5da-dbf6-40da-ae6d-235e62954ec5&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&amp;utm_content=immediate\">more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hemant Patel <\/strong>has been appointed as <strong>interim Chair of the Royal Armouries <\/strong>at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/interim-chair-appointed-to-the-royal-armouries--2?utm_source=31b7e8cb-ce88-4eb8-a2f1-c4dbded20ec7&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&amp;utm_content=immediate\">more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mrs Johanna Ropner DL <\/strong>has been appointed as <strong>Lord-Lieutenant of the County of North Yorkshire<\/strong> at the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/queen-appoints-lord-lieutenant-of-north-yorkshire?utm_source=b23417db-2465-40be-93fc-0830c7f257f6&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&amp;utm_content=immediate\">more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Geoffrey Carton-Kelly <\/strong>and<strong> Jason Baker <\/strong>have been appointed as <strong>joint Interim Managers <\/strong>of<strong> Achiezer Association Limited <\/strong>and<strong> Achiezer<\/strong> at The Charity Commission (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/interim-managers-appointed-to-achiezer-association-limited-and-achiezer?utm_source=619092df-b74a-41c9-92fd-c68fd6c7a074&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&amp;utm_content=immediate\">more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vegepaclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/House-of-Commons-logo.png\" alt=\"Image result for house of commons logo\" width=\"99\" height=\"123\" \/>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">House of Commons<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jessica Morden <\/strong>has replaced <strong>Derek Twigg <\/strong>as a member of the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ben Bradley <\/strong>has replaced <strong>Jeremy Quin <\/strong>as a member of the Regulatory Reform Committee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert Courts <\/strong>has replaced <strong>Iain Stewart <\/strong>as a member of the Transport Committee.<\/p>\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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>European Parliament<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This week, the European Parliament will be in Strasbourg for Plenary sessions.<\/p>\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":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\/118952"}],"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=118952"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119097,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118952\/revisions\/119097"}],"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=118952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}