{"id":123543,"date":"2019-07-15T16:48:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T15:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=123543&preview=true&preview_id=123543"},"modified":"2019-07-15T16:48:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T15:48:31","slug":"political-updates-15-july-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-15-july-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 15th July 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"ImageUK Government\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Sir Kim Darroch<\/strong> has resigned<\/a> as UK ambassador to the US due to leaked emails which were critical of President Trump’s administration.<\/p>\n

Professor Gideon Henderson<\/strong> has been appointed<\/a> as the new Defra Chief Scientist.<\/p>\n

Venerable Olivia Josephine Graham<\/strong> has been nominated<\/a> to the Suffragan See of Reading.<\/p>\n

David Jones OBE<\/strong> has been appointed<\/a> as the Chair of Qualifications Wales, and will begin this role in September 2019.<\/p>\n

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

Luciana Berger<\/strong>, Heidi Allen<\/strong>, Gavin Shuker<\/strong> and Angela Smith<\/strong> have founded<\/a> The Independents, which is a \u201cworkers collective\u201d, not a political party. John Woodcock<\/strong> has left the Labour Party to join The Independents.<\/p>\n

Teresa Pearce<\/strong>, MP for Erith and Thamesmead has said that she will step-down<\/a> in the next election.<\/p>\n

Guto Bebb<\/strong> has announced that he will stand down<\/a> as a Conservative candidate in the next general election as he is unhappy with the direction of the Conservative Party.<\/p>\n

Kate Hoey<\/strong> has announced that she will stand down<\/a> as a Labour MP at the next election.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>House of Lords<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Lord Turnberg<\/strong>, Lord Triesman<\/strong> and Lord Darzi<\/strong> have resigned<\/a> from the Labour Group in the House of Lords due to anti-Semitism within the Labour Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week\u2019s Political Updates covers moves and changes at all levels of government: local, devolved, national and, supranational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"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\/123543"}],"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\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123543"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123554,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123543\/revisions\/123554"}],"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=123543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}