Sentences with phrase «appointed as culture secretary»

John Whittingdale MP, who has been appointed as Culture Secretary, has also said the fee should be scrapped and that it is «worse than a poll tax».

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Auditor general John Bourn was appointed as an independent advisor to government ministers on the code of conduct following the row over culture secretary Tessa Jowell in March.

While the prime minister employs ex-Mail features writer Liz Sanderson as a special adviser to promote her agenda via features pages and magazines not read by political junkies, the culture secretary has appointed Charlotte Griffiths as her media adviser.

They include Chi Onwurah, the former minister for culture and the digital economy, who wrote that it was «statistically interesting to say the least» that Labour's leader had made life difficult for two of the very few minority ethnic female MPs; and Pat Glass, who resigned as shadow education secretary in June two days after being appointed, in protest over Corbyn's leadership.