{"id":131784,"date":"2020-08-10T13:12:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T12:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=131784"},"modified":"2020-08-10T13:12:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T12:12:32","slug":"political-updates-10-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-10-august-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 10 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

Dan O’Mahoney <\/strong>has been appointed to the new role of Clandestine Channel Threat Commander, leading the UK\u2019s response to tackling illegal attempts to reach the UK.<\/p>\n

Fiona Caldicott<\/strong> will stand down as National Data Guardian at the Department for Health and Social Care. A replacement is being recruited.<\/p>\n

Barbara Woodward<\/strong> has been named as the UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York.<\/p>\n

Charlie Taylor<\/strong> has been announced as the preferred candidate for next Her Majesty\u2019s Chief Inspector of Prisons.<\/p>\n

Philip Barton<\/strong> has been named as the first Permanent Under Secretary in the new Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office in September.<\/p>\n

Lord Nash<\/strong> has been appointed as the new Lead Non-Executive Director of the Cabinet Office, replacing Ian Cheshire<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Joanna Roper<\/strong> has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands in succession to Peter Wilson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Lindy Cameron<\/strong> will become the Chief Executive of the National Cyber Security Centre in October, replacing Ciaran Martin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Lindy Cameron<\/strong> will stand down as Director-General of the Northern Ireland Office.<\/p>\n

David Wood<\/strong>, Sarah Galvani<\/strong>, Judith Aldridge<\/strong> and appointed as members Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.<\/p>\n

Justin Holliday<\/strong> has been appointed as Tax Assurance Commissioner at HM Revenue & Customs, replacing Melissa Tatton.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

The following Conservative life peers have been announced:
\nAamer Sarfraz<\/strong>, Andrew Sharpe<\/strong>, Daniel Moylan<\/strong>, Edward Udny-Lister<\/strong>, Edward Vaizey<\/strong>, Helena Morrissey<\/strong>, Henry Bellingham<\/strong>, James Wharton<\/strong>, John Mark Lancaster<\/strong>, Joseph Johnson<\/strong>, Kenneth Clarke<\/strong>, Lorraine Fullbrook<\/strong>, Michael Spencer<\/strong>, Neil Mendoza<\/strong>, Nicholas Herbert<\/strong>, Patrick McLoughlin<\/strong>, Philip Hammond<\/strong>, Ruth Davidson<\/strong> and Veronica Wadley<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

New Labour life peers have been announced:
\nAnthony Woodley<\/strong>, Brinley Davies<\/strong>, Kathryn Clark<\/strong>, Prem Sikka<\/strong> and Susan Hayman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Nigel Dodds<\/strong> has been appointed as a Democratic Unionist Party life peer.<\/p>\n

New crossbench life peers have been announced:
\nEvgeny Lebedev<\/strong>, Ian Botham<\/strong>, Louise Casey<\/strong> and Minouche Shafik<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

New non-affiliated life peers have been announced:
\nCatharine Hoey<\/strong>, Charles Moore<\/strong>, Claire Fox<\/strong>, Frank Field<\/strong>, Gisela Stuart<\/strong>, Ian Austin<\/strong>, and John Woodcock<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Senedd Cymru\/Welsh Parliament<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Angela Burns<\/strong> became a member of the Public Accounts Committee.<\/p>\n

Andrew RT Davies<\/strong> has replaced Angela Burns as a member of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee.<\/p>\n

David Melding<\/strong> has replaced Suzy Davies as a member of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee.<\/p>\n

Janet Finch-Saunders<\/strong> has replaced Andrew RT Davies as a member of the Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n

Laura Anne Jones<\/strong> has replaced David Melding<\/strong> as a member of the External Affairs and Additional Legislation Committee.<\/p>\n

Laura Anne Jones<\/strong> has replaced Janet Finch-Saunders<\/strong> as a member of the Children, Young People and Education Committee.<\/p>\n

Suzy Davies<\/strong> became a member of the Economy, Infrastructure and Skills Committee.<\/p>\n

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

Douglas Ross<\/strong> has been elected as the new Leader.<\/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\/131784"}],"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=131784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131787,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131784\/revisions\/131787"}],"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=131784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}