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Oliver Dowden

July 2023

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    Another PMQs outing for deputy Dowden? Sunak must be quite the sadist

    John Crace
  • Rayner and Dowden filled in for their party leaders at deputy PMQs.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Rayner attacks Tories over ‘mortgage bombshell’ as Sunak misses PMQs again – as it happened

  • Angela Rayner pressed Oliver Dowden over ‘Tory mortgage bombshell’ as Rishi Sunak missed PMQs for a second week in a row

    1:35

    ‘Tory mortgage bombshell’ contributing to child poverty in UK, says Rayner – video

  • NHS ambulance staff in London.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    No 10 defends record on NHS waiting list after minister admits it could grow further – as it happened

June 2023

  • Nicola Jennings opinion cartoon 19.06.2023

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Nicola Jennings on how the Covid inquiry is exposing Tory ministers’ failings – cartoon

  • Members of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice holding photos of relatives who died

    UK post-Covid plan will not keep public safe, expert tells inquiry

  • David Cameron in the LBC radio studios

    Covid inquiry: lawyers voice ‘alarm’ over short time slot for David Cameron

  • Rishi Sunak talks to the media during his visit to Washington DC on 7 June.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Rishi Sunak confirms he will not talk about US-UK free trade deal with Joe Biden – as it happened

  • Ministers using ‘loophole lawyers’ to obstruct Covid inquiry, says Labour

  • 'They can't be trusted': Labour attacks government over £21bn loss of taxpayers' money – video

May 2023

  • Boris Johnson

    What is the standoff between Covid inquiry and Cabinet Office about?

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    Dowden is perfect fit as Sunak’s dependably mediocre deputy

    John Crace
  • British Chambers of Commerce conference<br>Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer speaking during the British Chambers Commerce Annual Global conference, at the QEII Centre, London. Picture date: Wednesday May 17, 2023. PA Photo. The conference will be one of the year's largest meetings of business chiefs and senior political figures following the cancellation of the Confederation of British Industry's annual gathering. See PA story POLITICS BCC. Photo credit should read: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Keir Starmer says Labour will prioritise growth which will mean ‘better jobs, public services, holidays and more cash’ – as it happened

  • Angela Rayner welcomed the third deputy prime minister she has faced from across the dispatch box

    4:36

    'Conveyor belt of crisis': Rayner confronts Dowden on culture wars, NHS and child poverty – video

  • Angela Rayner accuses Tories’ ‘Trump tribute act’ of preparing for opposition

  • Anti-Tory coalition leaves party reeling and ministers at risk after polls disaster

  • Take it from me: there is no civil service ‘activist’ plot – just Tory ministers who must learn to behave

    The civil servant

April 2023

  • Illustration by David Foldvari.

    Sunak’s sushi train Tories are like a banquet of filth

    Stewart Lee
    Oliver Dowden’s appointment as deputy PM proves that the Conservatives’ shallow well of talent is as rancid as our waterways
  • Oliver Dowden.

    Oliver Dowden: the new deputy PM who is more hardline than his image

    Sunak’s political soulmate portrays himself as a moderate but has been called a warrior against woke and keen Thatcherite
  • A grab taken from an AFPTV video shows a convoy leaving Khartoum towards Port Sudan on 23 April.

    UK evacuates British embassy staff and families from Sudan in wake of ‘significant threats’ – as it happened

    Foreign secretary says efforts to support British nationals trapped in Sudan currently ‘severely limited’
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