{"id":122522,"date":"2019-05-13T16:20:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T15:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=122522&preview=true&preview_id=122522"},"modified":"2019-05-13T16:20:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T15:20:27","slug":"political-updates-13-may-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-13-may-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 13th May 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s\u00a0Political Updates covers moves and changes at all levels of government.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Image\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>UK Government<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Baroness Fairhead resigned as Minister of State for Trade and Export Promotion. (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Baroness Manzoor resigned as Government Whip. (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Robert Buckland QC was appointed as a Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice on 9 May 2019. He was previously Solicitor General. (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Paul Maynard was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice on 9 May. He was previously Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury) and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport from July 2016 to January 2018. (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Dr Andrew Murrison MP was appointed as a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development on 9 May 2019.\u00a0(more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Dame Vera Baird has been appointed the new Victims\u2019 Commissioner and will take over the role from Baroness Newlove in mid-June 2019. (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister has reappointed Baroness Kay Andrews as Wales Committee Chair for the National Heritage Fund for three years from 1 April 2019.(more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister has reappointed Nick Hoffman as Trustee for the V&A for four years from 15 September 2019. (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Ms Deborah Bronnert CMG has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the Russian Federation. (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Lucy Frazer QC MP has been appointed as Solicitor General for England and Wales. (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Simon Armitage has been appointed as the UK\u2019s new Poet Laureate following Dame Carol Anne Duffy\u2019s tenure. (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The Secretary of State has extended Peter Ainsworth as Chair and Nat Sloane as England Committee Chair at the National Lottery Community Fund from 1 June 2019 to 30 November 2019.(more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has announced her intention to recommend the appointment of Mrs Marie Anderson as the new Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland. (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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The European elections are taking place 23 – 26 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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