{"id":131667,"date":"2020-08-04T15:23:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T14:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=131667"},"modified":"2020-08-04T15:30:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T14:30:13","slug":"political-updates-4-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-4-august-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 4 August 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

Sarah Newton<\/strong> became Chair of the Health and Safety Executive on 1 August, replacing Martin Temple<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Nick Markham<\/strong> has been appointed as the Departmental Lead Non-Executive Director at the Department for Work and Pensions.<\/p>\n

Peter Wilson<\/strong> has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the Federative Republic of Brazil in succession to Vijay Rangarajan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Ian Duddy<\/strong> has been appointed Ambassador to the Republic of Chile in succession to Jamie Bowden<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Jon Loveday<\/strong> has been appointed as Director of Infrastructure, Enterprise and Growth at the Infrastructure and Projects Authority.<\/p>\n

Juliet Davenport<\/strong> has been appointed as a member of the Crown Estate Board.<\/p>\n

Jo McPhail<\/strong> has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the Republic of Djibouti.<\/p>\n

Ramin Navai<\/strong> has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the Republic of Paraguay in succession to Matthew Hedges<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Richard Moore<\/strong> is to replace Alex Younger<\/strong> as Permanent Secretary and Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the autumn.<\/p>\n

Sarah Flannigan<\/strong> and Jantiene T. Klein Roseboom van der Veer<\/strong> have been reappointed as board members of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew for second terms of three years. Ian Karet<\/strong>, Michael Lear Derek Myers<\/strong> and Val Gooding<\/strong> have had their terms extended for six months.<\/p>\n

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

Baroness Barker<\/strong>, Lord Caine<\/strong>, Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill<\/strong> and Baroness Watkins of Tavistock<\/strong> have been appointed to the panel of members to serve as Deputy Chairmen of Committees.<\/p>\n

The Bishop of Manchester<\/strong> entered the House of Lords on 28 July.<\/p>\n

Lord Darling of Roulanish<\/strong> (Labour, life peer) retired on 28 July.<\/p>\n

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

Carmel McKinney<\/strong> has been reappointed as Chair of the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service.<\/p>\n

Patrick McElroy<\/strong> has had his membership of the Livestock and Meat Commission for Northern Ireland Board extended.<\/p>\n

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Scottish Conservatives<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Jackson Carlaw<\/strong> resigned as Leader on 30 July.<\/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\/131667"}],"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=131667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131670,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131667\/revisions\/131670"}],"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=131667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}