{"id":956798,"date":"2026-05-13T10:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/956798\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T10:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:07:14","slug":"new-government-post-for-birmingham-edgbaston-mp-gill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/956798\/","title":{"rendered":"New government post for Birmingham Edgbaston MP Gill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Birmingham MP Preet Kaur Gill has been appointed as a parliamentary under-secretary of state following a series of ministerial resignations which have intensified pressure on Sir Keir Starmer.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She will work in the Department of Health and Social Care and was among seven MPs to be given new roles yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gill, who has been MP for Edgbaston in Birmingham since 2017, will serve as an  assistant to a government minister. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Labour descended into open division on Tuesday as at least four ministers, including Yardley MP Jess Phillips, resigned and more than 80 MPs called on the prime minister to step down. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham MP Preet Kaur Gill has been appointed as a parliamentary under-secretary of state following a series of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-956798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116566717284372762","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}