{"id":45413,"date":"2014-07-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=4df210bc986fcac64757bbd39c77d2c9"},"modified":"2014-07-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T12:00:00","slug":"press-release-kenneth-clarke-appointed-to-the-order-of-the-companions-of-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=45413","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Kenneth Clarke appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Prime Minister requested the honour be granted following the recent government reshuffle, in recognition of Kenneth Clarke\u2019s longstanding public service to the country.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"notes-to-editors\">Notes to editors<\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"companions-of-honour\">Companions of Honour<\/h3>\n<p>The Order was instituted in 1917. The Order consists of The Sovereign and 65 members.<\/p>\n<p>The Order of the Companions of Honour is conferred on people for recognised services of national importance, for a pre-eminent and sustained contribution in the arts, science, medicine or government.<\/p>\n<p>Recipients are entitled to use the post-nominal letters \u201cCH\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"the-rt-hon-kenneth-clarke-mp\">The Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke MP<\/h3>\n<p>Kenneth Clarke QC MP was appointed Minister without Portfolio in September 2012. <\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Clarke was Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice from May 2010 to September 2012. <\/p>\n<p>Other positions he has held include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Secretary of State for Health 1988 to 1990<\/li>\n<li>Secretary of State for Education and Science 1990 to 1992<\/li>\n<li>Home Secretary 1992 to 1993<\/li>\n<li>Chancellor of the Exchequer 1993 to 1997<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He is the Conservative MP for Rushcliffe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP to the Order of the Companions of Honour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}