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First Minister: Michelle O'Neill: 3 February 2024 (12 months ago) () Sinn Féin [3] Deputy First Minister: Emma Little-Pengelly: Democratic Unionist Party Scotland: First Minister: John Swinney: 8 May 2024 (9 months ago) () Scottish National Party [4] Wales: First Minister: Eluned Morgan: 6 August 2024 (6 months ago) () Welsh Labour [5]
The council met for the first time in November 2022 chaired by Rishi Sunak. No further meetings were held until after the 2024 United Kingdom general election when newly elected prime minister Keir Starmer convened a meeting in October 2024. [10] Starmer has stated that the council will meet again in Spring 2025. [10]
Prime Minister (joint with the HM Treasury – the prime minister is the First Lord of the Treasury ex officio) [n 1] [1] First Lord of the Treasury; First Secretary of State; Minister for the Civil Service; Minister for the Union; Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister; Deputy Prime Minister
Changes from Starmer's final Shadow Cabinet to Cabinet.. Thangam Debbonaire (Shadow Culture Secretary) lost her seat and Lisa Nandy was appointed in her place.; Nandy's role (Shadow International Development Cabinet Minister) was a full member of Shadow Cabinet despite the department having merged into the Foreign Office under the previous government and not reformed by Starmer.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces that emergency legislation would be brought through Parliament to "swiftly exonerate and compensate victims" of the Post Office scandal in England and Wales. [25] First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf confirms those in Scotland convicted because of the scandal would also be cleared, and that he would work ...
Lord President of the Council (1678–present) Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (1307–present) Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (and preceding positions, 1889–2001) Minister of Technology (1964–1970) First Lord of the Admiralty (1709–1964) See also Admiralty. Paymaster General (1834–present) Master-General of the Ordnance ...
In a report titled Devolving English Government published in April 2023, to counter what they described as over-centralisation and a democratic deficit in England, the Institute for Government and the University of Cambridge's Bennett Institute for Public Policy proposed the formation of an "English Devolution Council", and the establishment of ...
Besides these, the council includes a few members of the Royal family (usually the consort and heir apparent only), more than two hundred senior UK judges (the Supreme Court justices, the senior judges of England and Wales, as well as the senators of the College of Justice of the Inner House in Scotland) and a few clergy (the three most senior ...