{"id":133167,"date":"2020-11-03T11:49:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T10:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=133167"},"modified":"2020-11-03T11:56:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T10:56:01","slug":"political-updates-3-november-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-3-november-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 3 November 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

Dame Judith Macgregor<\/strong> has been reappointed<\/a> as Trustee of the British Tourist Authority.<\/p>\n

Louise de Sousa<\/strong> has been appointed<\/a> as Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the Republic of Chile.<\/p>\n

The Queen has approved the appointment<\/a> of the Reverend Canon Timothy Goode<\/strong> as a Member of the Churches Conservation Trust.<\/p>\n

The Queen has approved the reappointment<\/a> of Susan Linda Wilkinson<\/strong> and Graham William Donaldson<\/strong> as Members of the Churches Conservation Trust.<\/p>\n

Belinda Lewis<\/strong> has been appointed<\/a> as Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the State of Kuwait in succession to Michael Davenport MBE<\/strong>. Ms Lewis will take up her appointment during April 2021.<\/p>\n

Theresa Bubbear<\/strong> has been appointed<\/a> as Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the Republic of Finland.<\/p>\n

Peter Freeman<\/strong> has been appointed<\/a> as new Chair of Homes England.<\/p>\n

Mark White<\/strong> has been appointed<\/a> as the UK’s second Groceries Code Adjudicator. He replaces Christine Tacon.<\/p>\n

The Queen has approved the nomination<\/a> of the Reverend Canon William Malcolm Macnaughton<\/strong> to the Suffragan See of Repton.<\/p>\n

Charlie Taylor<\/strong> has been appointed as Her Majesty\u2019s Chief Inspector of Prisons.<\/p>\n

Amit Bhagwat<\/strong> has been appointed<\/a> as a member of the Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COM) for three years from 1 September 2021.<\/p>\n

The appointments<\/a> of Dr Carol Beevers<\/strong> and Dr Stephen Dean<\/strong> as members of the COM have been extended for nine months from 1 April 2021 until 31 December 2021.<\/p>\n

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

Lord Elton <\/strong>(Conservative) retired<\/a> on 29 October.<\/p>\n

Lord Shutt of Greetland<\/strong> (Liberal Democrat) passed away<\/a> on 30 October.<\/p>\n

Baroness Casey of Blackstock<\/strong> (Crossbench, life peer) entered<\/a> the House of Lords on 30 October.<\/p>\n

Lord Woodley<\/strong> (Labour, life peer) entered<\/a> the House of Lords on 2 November.<\/p>\n

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Welsh Government<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sarah (Saz) Willey<\/strong> has been reappointed<\/a> as member to the Independent Remuneration Panel for Wales.<\/p>\n

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

John West<\/strong>, Anya O\u2019Connor<\/strong> and Patricia Corbett<\/strong> have been appointed<\/a> as new members of the Board of Tourism Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

Terence Brannigan<\/strong> has been reappointed<\/a> as Chair of the Board of Tourism Northern Ireland and Angelina Fusco<\/strong>, Terry McCartney<\/strong>, Michele Shirlow<\/strong>, Colin Neill <\/strong>and Geoff Wilson<\/strong> have been reappointed as members for a second term of up to three years.<\/p>\n

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

MLA for West Tyrone Catherine Kelly <\/strong>has resigned<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Labour Party<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremy Corbyn<\/strong> has been suspended<\/a> from the Labour Party. He now sits as an Independent.<\/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\/133167"}],"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=133167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133174,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133167\/revisions\/133174"}],"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=133167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}