{"id":8760,"date":"2017-10-28T11:27:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T11:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=8760"},"modified":"2017-10-28T11:27:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T11:27:18","slug":"uk-pm-theresa-may-appoints-new-brexit-representative-in-upper-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/uk-pm-theresa-may-appoints-new-brexit-representative-in-upper-house\/","title":{"rendered":"UK PM Theresa May appoints new Brexit representative in upper house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed on Friday a former member of the European Parliament to represent her government on Brexit in parliament\u2019s upper chamber following the resignation of the incumbent on medical grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Brexit department announced Martin Callanan had been appointed Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union, replacing Joyce Anelay who had held the role since June this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m delighted to welcome Lord Callanan to the Department \u2014 he brings with him a wealth of experience in Brussels and a proven ability in political leadership,\u201d said Brexit minister David Davis.<\/p>\n<p>Callanan will have a key role in marshalling Brexit legislation through the unelected upper chamber, in which May\u2019s Conservative Party does not have a majority. He had previously spent 15 years as an MEP and also worked in the transport department.<\/p>\n<p>In a resignation letter to May, Anelay said the worsening of an injury she sustained in 2015 had forced her decision to resign. She praised the work of the government in preparing for Brexit and said she was certain the negotiations would be successful.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed on Friday a former member of the European Parliament to represent her government on Brexit in parliament\u2019s upper chamber following the resignation of the incumbent on medical grounds. The Brexit department announced Martin Callanan had been appointed Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union, replacing [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8762,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8760\/revisions\/8762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}