{"id":119702,"date":"2019-01-07T15:21:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T14:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=119702&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=119702"},"modified":"2019-01-07T15:24:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T14:24:38","slug":"political-updates-07-january-2019-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-07-january-2019-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 07 January 2019"},"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<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>David Lelliott<\/strong> has been appointed <strong>Her Majesty&#8217;s Ambassador to the Republic of El Salvador <\/strong>at the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-el-salvador-during-summer-2019?utm_source=13958a02-f9b1-4334-92e5-8d9294c498db&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&amp;utm_content=immediate\">more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>David McIlroy <\/strong>has been appointed <strong>Her Majesty&#8217;s Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea <\/strong>at the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-guinea-in-june-2019\">more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr Neil Bush <\/strong>has been appointed as <strong>Head of the United Kingdom\u2019s Delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)<\/strong> at the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/change-of-the-head-of-the-uk-delegation-to-osce-in-vienna-in-march-2019?utm_source=af16bc6a-041c-4319-98f4-4c5c26de297a&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&amp;utm_content=immediate\">more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeremy Moore <\/strong>has been appointed Chair of <strong>BPDTS Ltd <\/strong>at the Department for Work and Pensions (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/new-chair-of-bpdts-ltd-appointed?utm_source=45d0af7f-a604-4582-a588-9d897853cbb3&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&amp;utm_content=immediate\">more info<\/a>). <strong>Valerie Gordon-Walker<\/strong> has been appointed as non-executive director (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/valerie-gordon-walker-joins-bpdts-ltds-board-of-directors?utm_source=273b50a7-6c3d-4cf4-a98a-9948fd38f1a6&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&amp;utm_content=immediate\">more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ben Elliot<\/strong> has been appointed as the Government\u2019s first <strong>Food Surplus and Waste Champion <\/strong>at the Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/gove-appoints-food-waste-champion?utm_source=a6412bea-facd-4fa3-9f7c-5dda3024f594&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&amp;utm_content=immediate\">more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dame Colette Bowe<\/strong> and <strong>Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia<\/strong> have been appointed as external members of the <strong>Financial Policy Committee<\/strong> at HM Treasury (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/dame-colette-bowe-and-dame-jayne-anne-gadhia-appointed-to-the-financial-policy-committee?utm_source=f384019c-1657-47ad-87ba-a695f2ecb3e9&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&amp;utm_content=immediate\">more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><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=\"110\" height=\"135\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0House of Commons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Redwood, Gary Streeter<\/strong> and <strong>Alan Campbell<\/strong> have received <strong>knighthoods.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Edward Leigh, Philip Dunne<\/strong> and <strong>Roger Gale<\/strong> have joined the <strong>Privy Council<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fiona Onasanya<\/strong> has been expelled from the <strong>Labour Party<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew Bowie<\/strong> has been appointed as <strong>Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativehome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-shot-2013-12-18-at-08.23.29-300x292.png\" alt=\"Related image\" width=\"133\" height=\"129\" \/>\u00a0House of Lords<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lord Higgins <\/strong>has retired as a Conservative life peer.<\/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 Brussels for 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\/119702"}],"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=119702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119705,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119702\/revisions\/119705"}],"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=119702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}