{"id":125470,"date":"2019-09-17T10:44:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T09:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=124589&preview=true&preview_id=124589"},"modified":"2019-09-17T10:44:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T09:44:25","slug":"political-updates-17-september-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-17-september-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 17 September 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

Stephen Hickey<\/strong>\u00a0has been\u00a0appointed<\/a>\u00a0as Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq, taking over from Jon Wilks.<\/p>\n

Fran Leddra<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Mark Harvey<\/strong>\u00a0have been appointed interim joint Chief Social Worker for Adults.<\/p>\n

Rehman Chishti<\/strong>\u00a0will\u00a0replace<\/a>\u00a0Lord Ahmad as Envoy for Freedom of Religion and Belief.<\/p>\n

UK Export Finance has\u00a0appointed<\/a>\u00a0Diego Folino<\/strong>\u00a0as Country Head at the British Embassy in Mexico.<\/p>\n

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House of Commons<\/h3>\n

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MP for East Surrey Sam Gyimah<\/strong> has joined<\/a> the Liberal Democrats. Gyimah was sitting as an Independent after having the Conservative whip removed for voting against the Government.<\/p>\n

Catherine McKinnell<\/strong>\u00a0has been\u00a0appointed<\/a>\u00a0as interim Treasury Committee Chair after the election for Chair was postponed until the House returns.<\/p>\n

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House of Lords<\/h3>\n

Conservative peerages\u00a0are to be given<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0Byron Davies<\/strong>,\u00a0David Brownlow<\/strong>,\u00a0Elizabeth Sanderson<\/strong>,\u00a0Gavin Barwell<\/strong>,\u00a0Joanna Penn<\/strong>,\u00a0Raminder Ranger<\/strong>,\u00a0Stephen Parkinson<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Zameer Choudrey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Labour peerages\u00a0are to be conferred<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Christine Blower<\/strong>,\u00a0Debbie Wilcox<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0John Hendy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Natalie Bennett<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0to be awarded<\/a>\u00a0a Green Party peerage.<\/p>\n

Crossbench peerages\u00a0are to be given<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0Harold Carter<\/strong>,\u00a0Heather Hallett<\/strong>,\u00a0Kim Darroch<\/strong>,\u00a0Ruth Hunt<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Simon Woolley<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Non-affiliated peerages\u00a0are to be conferred<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0John Mann<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Margaret Ritchie<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Duke of Wellington<\/strong>\u00a0(formerly Conservative)\u00a0is now sitting<\/a>\u00a0as non-affiliated.<\/p>\n

The Earl of Oxford and Asquith<\/strong>\u00a0(formerly Liberal Democrat)\u00a0is now sitting<\/a>\u00a0as non-affiliated.<\/p>\n

The Earl of Selborne<\/strong>\u00a0(previously Conservative)\u00a0is now sitting<\/a>\u00a0as non-affiliated.<\/p>\n

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Scottish Parliament<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Jamie Greene<\/strong>\u00a0has left the Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee, and\u00a0Donald Cameron<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Mike Rumbles<\/strong>\u00a0have been appointed as members.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Balfour<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed to replace\u00a0Alison Harris<\/strong>\u00a0as a member of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee.<\/p>\n

Alison Harris<\/strong>,\u00a0Johann Lamont<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Oliver Mundell\u00a0<\/strong>have left the Education and Skills Committee.\u00a0Beatrice Wishart<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Daniel Johnson<\/strong>\u00a0have been appointed as members.<\/p>\n

Rachael Hamilton<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed to replace\u00a0John Scott<\/strong>\u00a0as a member of the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee.<\/p>\n

Alex Rowley<\/strong>\u00a0will replace\u00a0James Kelly<\/strong>\u00a0as a member of the Finance and Constitution Committee.<\/p>\n

James Kelly<\/strong>\u00a0will replace\u00a0Daniel Johnson<\/strong>\u00a0as a member of the Justice Committee.<\/p>\n

Sarah Boyack<\/strong>\u00a0will replace\u00a0Alex Rowley<\/strong>\u00a0on the Local Government and Communities Committee.<\/p>\n

Maurice Corry<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed to replace\u00a0Rachael Hamilton<\/strong>\u00a0as a member of the Public Petitions Committee.<\/p>\n

Ruth Davidson<\/strong>\u00a0was elected to replace\u00a0Jackson Carlaw<\/strong>\u00a0as a member Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body.<\/p>\n

Neil Findlay<\/strong>\u00a0will replace\u00a0Elaine Smith<\/strong>\u00a0as a member of the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee.<\/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":393,"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\/125470"}],"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\/393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125470\/revisions"}],"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=125470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}