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Tag Archives: Oliver Dowden
At what stage will this challenge get dealt with?
Back in April last year Johnny Mercer is claimed to have told the Conservative Chief Whip that he intended to resign and he was dismissed by Boris Johnson. His comment which appears here was collected by a series of newspapers. … Continue reading
Three significant men who share the same view
Nearly three weeks ago Ed Davey, the leader of the Liberal Democrat Party published an Early Day Motion 134 which is entitled “No confidence in the Prime Minister”. Sadly apart from his own political team along with Caroline Lucas from … Continue reading
Posted in Brighton & Hove, Parliament and Democracy
Tagged Caroline Lucas, Ed Davey, Michael Howard, Oliver Dowden, Stephen Farry
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Oliver, DCMS Minister must go further than deleting his Tweet!
Yesterday at around 6pm the wife of Joe Biden, Jill Biden who is the First Lady of the United States posted a tweet with the following words Beautiful and powerful program for G7 spouses today at the @minacktheatre. Thank you … Continue reading
Removing Huawei by 2027 will have taken Parliament 16 years
The news yesterday that at the end of this year there will be no more UK purchases of any Huawei equipment for our 5G system and that by 2027 all of the existing Huawei items will have been removed seemed … Continue reading
A very difficult position for the Government and our whole Nation
I find writing about the Dominic Cummings situation as difficult as I did about writing about Neil Ferguson’s situation. Both men have worked very hard to try to communicate with our Nation about COVID-19 along with many of their colleagues … Continue reading
COVID-19 Disinformation or rather Scrutiny of Politicians is vital
On Monday in the House of Commons two MPs asked Oliver Dowden, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport a question regarding Covid19-Disinformation. One of them was Rob Roberts who was one of the Conservative candidates in … Continue reading
Johnson needs to go, and Parliament needs to carry on!
Like many people across our nation I am deeply grateful for the return to Westminster last week by MPs following the Supreme Court judgement. For the 38,000 people in Sussex who signed a petition calling for Parliament not to be … Continue reading