{"id":132108,"date":"2020-09-01T14:50:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T13:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=132108"},"modified":"2020-09-02T13:21:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T12:21:58","slug":"political-updates-1-september-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-1-september-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 1 September 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

Stephen Lightfoot<\/strong> has been appointed to the role of Chair of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).<\/p>\n

Helen Chamberlain<\/strong> has been appointed as substantive chair of the Independent Family Returns Panel (IFRP).<\/p>\n

The Queen has approved the appointment of Lord Justice Stephens<\/strong> to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom as a Justice.<\/p>\n

Amanda Spielman<\/strong> will chair a new board committee at Ofqual until the end of 2020.<\/p>\n

Susan Acland-Hood<\/strong> has been appointed to the role of Acting Permanent Secretary at the Department for Education.<\/p>\n

Cathy Ward<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of Malta.<\/p>\n

Danny Kinahan <\/strong>has been appointed as the first Veterans Commissioner for Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

Simon Case <\/strong>has been appointed as Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service.<\/p>\n

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

Lord Jones of Birmingham<\/strong> retired on the 31 August.<\/p>\n

Lord Williams of Oystermouth\u00a0<\/strong>retired on the 31 August.<\/p>\n

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

Sebastian Graham <\/strong>has been appointed as a member of the Historic Buildings Council.<\/p>\n

Kenneth Clayton, Alan Law, Shane McCurdy <\/strong>and Peter Moore<\/strong> have been appointed as members of the Northern Ireland Local Government Officers\u2019 Superannuation Committee (NILGOSC).<\/p>\n

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Liberal Democrats<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ed Davey <\/strong>has been elected as Leader of the Liberal Democrats, having previously held the role on an interim basis.<\/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\/132108"}],"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=132108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132121,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132108\/revisions\/132121"}],"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=132108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}