{"id":4100,"date":"2020-02-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmediauk.org\/oliver-dowden-appointed-culture-secretary\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T09:46:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T08:46:41","slug":"oliver-dowden-appointed-culture-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmediauk.org\/blog\/2020\/02\/13\/oliver-dowden-appointed-culture-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Dowden Appointed Culture Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Dowden CBE has been appointed Culture Secretary today, replacing Nicky Morgan.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Dowden was previously Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office from 24 July 2019 to 13 February 2020, and Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet Office from 9 January 2018 to 24 July 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He was elected Conservative MP for Hertsmere in May 2015.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Rt Hon Oliver Dowden CBE MP <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OliverDowden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@oliverdowden<\/a> has been appointed Secretary of State <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DCMS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dcms<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vX91VDH45L\">pic.twitter.com\/vX91VDH45L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/10DowningStreet\/status\/1227955395727101952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Dowden CBE has been appointed Culture Secretary today, replacing Nicky Morgan.<br \/>\nMr Dowden was previously Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office from 24 July 2019 to 13 February 2020, and Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet Office from 9 January 2018 to 24 July 2019.<br \/>\nHe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Oliver Dowden Appointed Culture Secretary - News Media Association<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newsmediauk.org\/blog\/2020\/02\/13\/oliver-dowden-appointed-culture-secretary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Oliver Dowden Appointed Culture Secretary - News Media Association\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Oliver Dowden CBE has been appointed Culture Secretary today, replacing Nicky Morgan. 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