Tag Archives: Oliver Dowden

Government requires mandatory housebuilding targets

Posted on December 16, 2022 by ianchisnall

Early last week our Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) set out a piece in their magazine which is here and it begins with the headline Government to remove mandatory housebuilding targets and the first couple of sentences are UK … Continue reading →

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At what stage will this challenge get dealt with?

Posted on July 3, 2022 by ianchisnall

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 →

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Three significant men who share the same view

Posted on June 24, 2022 by ianchisnall

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 →

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Oliver, DCMS Minister must go further than deleting his Tweet!

Posted on June 13, 2021 by ianchisnall

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 →

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Removing Huawei by 2027 will have taken Parliament 16 years

Posted on July 15, 2020 by ianchisnall

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 →

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A very difficult position for the Government and our whole Nation

Posted on May 24, 2020 by ianchisnall

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 →

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COVID-19 Disinformation or rather Scrutiny of Politicians is vital

Posted on April 29, 2020 by ianchisnall

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 →

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Johnson needs to go, and Parliament needs to carry on!

Posted on September 30, 2019 by ianchisnall

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 →

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