{"id":99393,"date":"2017-01-30T11:54:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T11:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=99393&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=99393"},"modified":"2019-09-10T15:38:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:38:55","slug":"political-updates-30th-january-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/political-updates-30th-january-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Updates 30th 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<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jo Stevens<\/strong> (LAB) has resigned as Shadow Secretary of State for Wales.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tulip Siddiq\u00a0<\/strong>(LAB) has resigned as Shadow Minister for Early Years.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Copeland by-election<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The election will take place on<strong> 23rd February.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jamie Reed<\/strong> vacated his seat on\u00a0<strong>23rd January.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Trudy Harrison<\/strong> has been selected as the\u00a0<strong>Conservative Party\u00a0<\/strong>candidate.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fiona Mills<\/strong> has been selected as the\u00a0<strong>UKIP<\/strong> candidate.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jack Lenox<\/strong> has been selected as the\u00a0<strong>Green Party\u00a0<\/strong>candidate.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rebecca Hanson<\/strong> has been selected as the\u00a0<strong>Liberal Democrat<\/strong> candidate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Stoke Central by-election<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The election will take place on\u00a0<strong>23rd February.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tristram Hunt\u00a0<\/strong>vacated his seat on\u00a0<strong>23rd January.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jack Brereton<\/strong> has been selected as the\u00a0<strong>Conservative Party\u00a0<\/strong>candidate.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gareth Snell<\/strong> has been selected as the <strong>Labour Party<\/strong> candidate.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr Zulfiqar Ali\u00a0<\/strong> has been selected as the\u00a0<strong>Liberal Democrat\u00a0<\/strong>candidate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Select Committees<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Backbench Business:\u00a0<\/strong>Robert Courts (CON) joined; 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>Baroness Wall of New Barnet<\/strong> passed away on <strong>25th January<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Scottish-Parliament-Logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-96464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Scottish-Parliament-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"scottish-parliament-logo\" width=\"123\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Scottish Parliament<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Newly approved Cross Party Groups<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sexual Health and Blood Borne Viruses<\/strong> &#8211; Alex Cole-Hamilton (Co-convener),\u00a0Tom Arthur (Co-convener), Kezia Dugdale (Co-convener),\u00a0Patrick Harvie (Co-convener)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Architecture and the Built Environment<\/strong> &#8211; \u00a0Linda Fabiani (Convener)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nordic Countries<\/strong> &#8211; Maurice Golden (Convener)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Walking, Cycling and Buses<\/strong> &#8211; Alison Johnstone (Co-convener), Claudia Beamish (Co-convener)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Northern-Ireland-Assembly-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-96463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Northern-Ireland-Assembly-Logo.png\" alt=\"northern-ireland-assembly-logo\" width=\"107\" height=\"96\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Northern Ireland Assembly<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Assembly was dissolved on Thursday<strong> 26th January<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michelle O&#8217;Neill<\/strong>\u00a0has been\u00a0named as the new Leader of\u00a0<strong>Sinn Fein<\/strong>\u00a0for Northern Ireland<strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ross Hussey MLA<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Douglas Ross MLA<\/strong> (Junior Minister in the Executive Office), have both announced they will not seek re-election in March.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<strong>Local Government<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Eamonn Boylan<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed the Chief Executive of the new <strong>Greater Manchester Combined Authority,\u00a0<\/strong>and will therefore be vacating his position as Chief Executive of\u00a0<strong>Stockport Council.<\/strong><\/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 and Group meetings, and a Plenary meeting.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Martin Schulz<\/strong>, former President of the Parliament has announced he will resign his seat this week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\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\/99393"}],"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=99393"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124358,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99393\/revisions\/124358"}],"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=99393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}