{"id":99150,"date":"2017-01-23T12:14:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T12:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=99150&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=99150"},"modified":"2019-09-10T15:39:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:39:40","slug":"political-updates-23rd-january-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-23rd-january-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 23rd January 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99277 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3.png\" alt=\"Political-Updates-Logo-3\" width=\"760\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3.png 760w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3-705x264.png 705w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3-450x169.png 450w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Political-Updates-Logo-3-500x188.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">This week&#8217;s\u00a0Political Updates, covers moves and changes at all levels of government.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div   class='hr hr-full hr-no-shadow   avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-96460 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/House-of-Commons-Logo.png\" alt=\"house-of-commons-logo\" width=\"86\" height=\"106\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>House of Commons<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Copeland by-election<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gillian Troughton<\/strong> has been selected by the Labour Party to contest the by-election.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul Nuttall<\/strong>\u00a0the<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Leader of the UKIP will be his party&#8217;s candidate for the by-election.<\/li>\n<li>The Green Party will select their candidate for the by-election on Tuesday 24th January.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Select Committees<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Women and Equalities:\u00a0<\/strong>Lucy Allan (CON) joined; Jo Churchill (CON) left.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scottish Affairs:\u00a0<\/strong>Craig Williams (CON) joined; Dr Dan Poulter (CON) left.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-96461 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/House-of-Lords-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"house-of-lords-logo\" width=\"107\" height=\"105\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>House of Lords<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Lord Mackay of Drumadoon\u00a0<\/strong>resigned from the House of Lords on 17th January.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Baroness Heyhoe Flint\u00a0<\/strong>passed away on 18th January.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Northern-Ireland-Assembly-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-96463 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Northern-Ireland-Assembly-Logo.png\" alt=\"northern-ireland-assembly-logo\" width=\"124\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Northern Ireland Assembly<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Assembly will sit for the final time on 25th January, it will be dissolved on the <strong>26th January<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The election for the Assembly will be held on <strong>2nd March<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Martin McGuinness\u00a0<\/strong>has announced he will stand down from the Assembly at the coming election.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Catherine Seeley\u00a0<\/strong>MLA has announced she will stand down at the election<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Local Government<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dave Stewart<\/strong> has been elected as the leader of <strong>Isle of Wight Council<\/strong> following the resignation of\u00a0Jonathan Bacon on 16th January.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-96459 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/European-Parliament-Logo.png\" alt=\"european-parliament-logo\" width=\"198\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>European Parliament<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This week the Members of the European Parliament will be based in Brussels for Committee meetings.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Antonio Tajani<\/strong>\u00a0of the European People&#8217;s Party has been elected President of the European Parliament. He achieved a majority of votes on the third round of voting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On\u00a0<strong>17th January\u00a0<\/strong>Vice-Presidents were elected in the European Parliament:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mairead McGuinness<\/li>\n<li>Bogus\u0142aw Liberadzki<\/li>\n<li>David Sassoli<\/li>\n<li>Rainer Wieland<\/li>\n<li>Sylvie Guillaume<\/li>\n<li>Ryszard Czarnecki<\/li>\n<li>Ram\u00f3n Luis Valcarcel Siso<\/li>\n<li>Evelyne Gebhardt<\/li>\n<li>Pavel Teli\u010dka<\/li>\n<li>Ildik\u00f3 Gall-Pelcz<\/li>\n<li>Dimitrios Papadimoulis<\/li>\n<li>Ulrike Lunacek<\/li>\n<li>Alexander Graf Lambsdorff<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Party News<\/h3>\n<p>The Liberal Democrat Party has appointed regional Brexit spokespeople:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>North &#8211; Fiona Hall and Lord Shipley<\/li>\n<li>Yorkshire and Humber &#8211; Kamran Hussain<\/li>\n<li>North West &#8211; Lisa Smart<\/li>\n<li>West Midlands &#8211; Beverley Nielsen<\/li>\n<li>East Midlands &#8211; Zuffar Haq<\/li>\n<li>Eastern &#8211; Belinda Brooks-Gordon<\/li>\n<li>London &#8211; Jonathan Fryer<\/li>\n<li>South East &#8211; Antony Hook<\/li>\n<li>Western &#8211; Baroness Janke<\/li>\n<li>Devon and Cornwall &#8211; Lord Teverson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Political Updates covers moves and changes at all levels of government: local, devolved, national and, supranational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":406,"featured_media":99279,"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\/99150"}],"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\/406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99150"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124361,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99150\/revisions\/124361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}