{"id":19220,"date":"2023-04-21T12:56:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T12:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/uk-lawmaker-alex-chalk\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T12:59:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T12:59:53","slug":"uk-lawmaker-alex-chalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/uk-lawmaker-alex-chalk\/","title":{"rendered":"UK lawmaker Alex Chalk replaces Raab as justice minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) -British lawmaker Alex Chalk was named justice minister following Dominic Raab&#8217;s resignation earlier on Friday, the government said.<\/p>\n<p>Raab, who held the posts of deputy prime minister and justice minister, resigned following a report into claims he bullied colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Chalk, 46, previously served in the Ministry of Defence as Minister for Defence Procurement &#8211; a post he had held since Rishi Sunak became prime minister in October.<\/p>\n<p>Chalk served as a lawyer for 14 years before becoming a lawmaker in 2015. He specialised in counter-terrorism, homicide and serious fraud cases before entering politics.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by William James and Muvija M, writing by Sachin Ravikumar, Editing by Paul Sandle)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/uk-lawmaker-alex-chalk\/british-mp-alex-chalk-walks-outside-downing-street-in-london\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3K0G4-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3K0G4-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) -British lawmaker Alex Chalk was named justice minister following Dominic Raab&#8217;s resignation earlier on Friday, the government said. Raab, who held the posts of deputy prime minister and justice minister, resigned following a report into claims he bullied colleagues. Chalk, 46, previously served in the Ministry of Defence as Minister for Defence Procurement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3K0G4-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19222,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19220\/revisions\/19222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}