Victoria Mary Atkins (born 22 March 1976) is a British politician who served in various ministerial positions under Prime Ministers Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak between 2017 and 2024, lastly as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from November 2023 to July 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Louth and Horncastle since 2015 and Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs since November 2024. Before her political career, she worked as a barrister specialising in organised crime.
Atkins was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding at the Home Office in November 2017 by Prime Minister Theresa May. Following the formation of the first Johnson ministry in July 2019, she remained in her post. On 16 September 2021, during the cabinet reshuffle, Boris Johnson appointed Atkins Minister of State for Prisons and Probation and Minister for Afghan Resettlement; she oversaw Operation Pitting in the latter role until she was replaced in March 2022. She resigned as Prisons Minister during the July 2022 government crisis, and called on Johnson to resign. After Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister in October 2022, she was appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury before being promoted to Health Secretary in the November 2023 cabinet reshuffle.
Lue lisää...22. maaliskuuta 1976 oli maanantaina tähtimerkin ♈ alla. Se oli 81 päivä vuodesta. Yhdysvaltain presidentti oli Gerald R. Ford.
Jos olet syntynyt tänä päivänä, olet 50 vuotta vanha. Viimeisin syntymäpäiväsi oli sunnuntaina 22. maaliskuuta 2026, 61 päivää sitten. Seuraava syntymäpäiväsi on maanantaina 22. maaliskuuta 2027, 303 päivän kuluttua. Olet elänyt 18 323 päivää tai noin 439 760 tuntia tai noin 26 385 630 minuuttia tai noin 1 583 137 800 sekuntia.
Date: 23 March 1976
By JAMES M. MARKHAM Special to The New York Times
2 explosions rock offices of newspaper An Nahar, where offices of UPI are situated, and mortar round knocks out communications of Reuters news agency in Kantari section of Lebanon (S)
Date: 22 March 1976
By JAMES M. MARKHAM Special to The New York Times
Offices of Reuters in Kantari area of Lebanon are evacuated on Mar 22 because of shells falling close by; offices of Beirut daily newspaper An Nahar are also evacuated; 1st Eur journalist to die in Beirut fighting is freelance photographer Marie-Pierre Sabremont (S)
Date: 23 March 1976
By BERNARD WEINRAUB Special to The New York Times
Bernard Special
comment on rept; comm chmn Prof O R McGregor compares Brit situation to newspaper situation in NYC; Sunday Times business news editor Peter Wilsher comments on rept (M)
Date: 23 March 1976
Phila Inquirer on Mar 22 files in Feb ct $70,000 damage suit against Mayor Frank L Rizzo and Police Comr Joseph O'Neill; also named as defendants are Phila Bldg and Construction Trades Council and its business agent Thomas Magrann (S)
Date: 23 March 1976
By RICHARD D. LYONS Special to The New York Times
HR Accounts Subcom cuts funds sought by HR Com on Standards of Official Conduct to probe leaking of HR Select Intelligence Com's rept from $350,000 to $150,000; earmarks 1/2 of the $150,000 to pay lawyers' fees for persons who would either be subpoenaed to testify or would be questioned under oath; Reprs S L Devine, F Thompson Jr and A F Hawkins comment (M)
Date: 22 March 1976
Phila Inquirer assails Phila Mayor Frank L Rizzo on Mar 21 for not ordering police to break up 10-hr demonstration; Bldg and Construction Trades Council of Phila business mgr Thomas J Magrann denies demonstration was in support of Rizzo in his $6-million libel suit against paper (S)
Date: 23 March 1976
By HENRY KAMM Special to The New York Times
Henry Special
article on problems faced by Botswana notes that only ports of entry are in S Africa (S)