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Oliver Dowden

July 2024

  • Oliver Dowden, the former deputy prime minister, has been singled out by angry candidates and aides.

    ‘The entire clown show caught up with us’: Tory infighting erupts after defeat

  • Oliver Dowden, deputy prime minister.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Oliver Dowden reportedly reveals preferred choice for next Tory leader – UK general election as it happened

June 2024

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    Dim Dowden is not the right Tory frontman to energise flatlining campaign

    John Crace
  • Mel Stride leaving a building

    Marina Hyde’s campaign trail 2024
    And it’s over to Mel Stride. Again. Where are all the other Tories? Ladbrokes?

  • James Cleverly buttons up his jacket after leaving a car

    Tories in election retreat as resources diverted to defend ministers’ seats

  • A Conservative source has criticised ‘clown advisers’ after Rishi Sunak left the D-day ceremony early to conduct a TV interview.

    ‘D-day was the final straw’: Sunak’s blunders ignite Tory party fury

May 2024

  • Martha Gill

    Biohazards, Putin, extremism… we’ll need more than a few tins of beans

    Martha Gill
    Oliver Dowden’s advice on stockpiling forgets that co-operation is vital if we are to stand a chance against modern threats

April 2024

  • Seth Lazar

    Can we really trust AI to channel the public’s voice for ministers?

    Seth Lazar
  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    Down, down, deeper and Dowden: how can Rishi’s stand-in be so useless?

    John Crace
  • German Chancellor Olaf Scholz with Rishi Sunak after a press conference in Berlin.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Sunak claims defence spending plan won’t affect government’s ability to cut taxes – as it happened

  • Angela Rayner speaking at PMQs

    Angela Rayner tells ministers to focus on no-fault evictions, not her house sale

  • UK firms may be barred from funding emerging tech in hostile countries

  • Ex-defence ministers ‘wrong’ to say UK unprepared for war, deputy PM says

  • Attacks like the one China is accused of are ‘pretty routine’.

    First Edition newsletter
    Tuesday briefing: Why the US and UK are going public with warnings about Chinese hacking

    In today’s newsletter: Information about 40 million UK voters was stolen by Chinese spies in a hack that also targeted elected officials. A cybersecurity experts walks us through whether these are isolated incidents, or the tip of a digital iceberg
  • Deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden said on Monday that UK ‘will not hesitate to take swift and robust actions wherever the Chinese government threatens the United Kingdom’s interests’ <br>

    China cyber-attacks: this growing threat to UK security will not go away

    With the Electoral Commission just the latest target on a list that includes the economy and supply chains, experts warn of data-gathering ‘on an industrial scale’
  • Zoe Williams

    The politics sketch
    Is mild man Dowden up to the threat of China’s cyber campaign?

    Zoe Williams
    Deputy PM, who didn’t really sign up for this, seemed reluctant to declare war on a superpower
    • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
      Chinese ‘state-affiliated’ organisations behind cyber-attacks on MPs and Electoral Commission, Dowden says – as it happened

    • UK ‘slow to hold China to account’ for cyber-attacks against MPs and voters

    • Details of millions of UK voters accessed by Chinese state, ministers will say

  • Former Gogglebox participant Josh Tapper

    Labour chooses Gogglebox star to run against deputy PM at general election

    Ex-participant Josh Tapper will challenge Oliver Dowden to be the MP for Hertsmere, Hertfordshire
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