{"id":19234,"date":"2023-04-21T13:05:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T13:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/oliver-dowden-named-uk\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T13:09:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T13:09:43","slug":"oliver-dowden-named-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/oliver-dowden-named-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Dowden named UK deputy PM after Raab&#8217;s resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211;     The British government named Oliver Dowden deputy prime minister on Friday, replacing Dominic Raab who resigned earlier in the day following a report into claims he bullied colleagues. <\/p>\n<p>As deputy prime minister, Raab had no formal powers but stepped in for the prime minister if he was away from parliament or incapacitated.  <\/p>\n<p>Dowden currently serves as cabinet office minister in Sunak&#8217;s government. He was previously chairman of Sunak&#8217;s Conservative Party but resigned from that post last June after two crushing by-election defeats for the party.<\/p>\n<p>In the same announcement, lawmaker Alex Chalk was appointed new justice minister, a position which was previously held by Raab. <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Muvija M and Sachin Ravikumar, Editing by Paul Sandle)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/oliver-dowden-named-uk\/file-photo-downing-street-in-london\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3K0GS-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3K0GS-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; The British government named Oliver Dowden deputy prime minister on Friday, replacing Dominic Raab who resigned earlier in the day following a report into claims he bullied colleagues. As deputy prime minister, Raab had no formal powers but stepped in for the prime minister if he was away from parliament or incapacitated. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19234","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_LYNXMPEJ3K0GS-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19234","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=19234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19236,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19234\/revisions\/19236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}