{"id":119291,"date":"2018-11-26T17:23:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T16:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=119291&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=119291"},"modified":"2018-11-26T17:27:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T16:27:19","slug":"political-updates-26-november-2018-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-26-november-2018-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 26 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 departments<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Conservative MP <strong>John Hayes<\/strong> has been granted a knighthood by the Queen (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/knighthood-conferred-and-privy-council-appointments-november-2018\">more info).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conservative MP <strong>Christopher Pincher<\/strong> and Labour MP <strong>Mark Tami<\/strong> have been appointed members of the Privy Council (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/knighthood-conferred-and-privy-council-appointments-november-2018\">more info).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Queen has appointed <strong>Right Reverend Jonathan Hugh Frost<\/strong> as the <strong>Dean of York <\/strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/queen-appoints-dean-of-york?utm_source=f4ab91f5-eb50-4c7a-a585-09c634246213&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&amp;utm_content=immediate\">more info<\/a>)<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Julian Ashby <\/strong>is standing down as Chair of the<strong> Regulation Committee <\/strong>within the <strong>Regulator of Social Housing <\/strong>at the Ministry of Housing, Communities &amp; Local Government (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/julian-ashby-stands-down-as-chair-of-regulation-committee\">more info).<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Sheldon<\/strong> has been appointed as <strong>Deputy Chair <\/strong>of the <strong>Sea Fish Industry Authority <\/strong>at the Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/new-appointments-to-the-seafish-board?utm_source=a9239daa-350b-48ca-9399-afe80ae8e524&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=\"alignleft wp-image-119185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/House-of-Commons-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"133\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">House of Commons<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Green <\/strong>has replaced <strong>Kirstene Hair <\/strong>as a member of the <strong>Home Affairs Committee. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack Lopresti <\/strong>has replaced <strong>Simon Hoare <\/strong>as a member of the <strong>Welsh Affairs Committee.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Anna Soubry <\/strong>has replaced <strong>Kirstene Hair <\/strong>as a member of the <strong>Women and Equalities Committee.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Derek Thomas <\/strong>has replaced <strong>Justin Tomlinson <\/strong>as a member of the <strong>Work and Pensions Committee.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jess Phillips <\/strong>has replaced <strong>Sir Kevin Barron <\/strong>as a member of the <strong>Committee of Privileges.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bill Wiggin <\/strong>has replaced <strong>Ruth Cadbury <\/strong>as a member of the <strong>Justice Committee. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jess Phillips <\/strong>has joined the <strong>Committee on Standards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1062709025933086721\/2q1C9SuG_400x400.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for labour party\" width=\"118\" height=\"118\" \/>\u00a0 Welsh Labour<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jenny Rathbone <\/strong>has been suspended from the<strong> Labour Group <\/strong>pending a decision by the UK Labour Party under its disciplinary procedures.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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, Committee meetings and Group meetings.<\/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\/119291"}],"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=119291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119294,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119291\/revisions\/119294"}],"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=119291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}