{"id":131150,"date":"2020-07-07T09:58:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T08:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=131150"},"modified":"2020-07-07T09:58:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T08:58:57","slug":"political-updates-7-july-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-7-july-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 7 July 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stay on top of latest political appointments – covering recent changes and moves at a national level in UK politics.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>UK Government<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Mark Sedwill<\/strong> has announced he will step down from his role as Cabinet Secretary, National Security Adviser and Head of the Civil Service in September.<\/p>\n

John Mothersole<\/strong> has been appointed England Chair of the National Lottery Community Fund. Kate Still<\/strong> has been appointed Scotland Chair.<\/p>\n

Stephen Cohen<\/strong> has been reappointed as a Commissioner of the Gambling Commission for four years from 12 November.<\/p>\n

Venki Ramakrishnan<\/strong> has been appointed as a Trustee of the British Library for four years.<\/p>\n

Diane Corner<\/strong> has been appointed as Consul-General to Jerusalem from Spring, replacing Philip Hall<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Anna Clunes<\/strong> has been appointed as Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the Republic of Poland, in succession to Jonathan Knott<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Paul Johnston<\/strong> has been appointed as Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to Ireland, in succession to Robin Barnett<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Nick Ephgrave<\/strong> has been appointed as a Policing Member on the Sentencing Council for England and Wales for three years.<\/p>\n

Nigel Houlton<\/strong> has been names as the new Future Missions Director of Magnox Ltd.<\/p>\n

Kathryn Gray<\/strong> and Mark Hoble<\/strong> have been appointed as members of the Police Remuneration Review Body & National Crime Agency Remuneration Review Body.<\/p>\n

Eleanor Shawcross<\/strong> and Rachel Wolf<\/strong> have been named as Non-Executive Board Members at the Department for Work and Pensions.<\/p>\n

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House of Commons<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Neale Hanvey<\/strong> has replaced Amy Callaghan<\/strong> as a member of the Health and Social Care Committee.<\/p>\n

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House of Lords<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Baroness Maddock <\/strong>(Lib Dem, life peer) passed away on 26 June.<\/p>\n

Lord Luce <\/strong>(Crossbench, life peer) retired on 29 June.<\/p>\n

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Northern Ireland Executive<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Julie Andrews<\/strong>, Liam Hannaway<\/strong>, Lynne Best<\/strong>, M\u00e1irt\u00edn \u00d3 Muilleoir<\/strong>, Sean Kelly<\/strong>, Una McRory<\/strong> and named as members on the board of Arts Council Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

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Scottish National Party<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kirsty Blackman<\/strong> has resigned as Deputy Leader in Westminster.<\/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":410,"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\/131150"}],"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\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131155,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131150\/revisions\/131155"}],"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=131150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}