{"id":2989,"date":"2021-09-16T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmediauk.org\/nadine-dorries-appointed-culture-secretary\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T09:38:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T08:38:40","slug":"nadine-dorries-appointed-culture-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmediauk.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/16\/nadine-dorries-appointed-culture-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Nadine Dorries Appointed Culture Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nadine Dorries,&nbsp;MP for Mid Bedfordshire since 2005, has been appointed as the new Culture Secretary in a reshuffle which kicked off yesterday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She replaces Oliver Dowden who moves to the Cabinet Office and the post of Minister without Portfolio.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the reshuffle continues today, John Whittingdale has said that he is stepping down as Minister for Media and Data.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Dorries&#8217; previous role since May 2020 was Minister at the Department of Health and Social Care.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Dorries trained as a nurse at Warrington General Hospital and then went on to set up her own business and later became a director at BUPA.<\/p>\n<p>She has also published a number of books and appeared as a contestant on ITV&#8217;s I&#8217;m a Celebrity &hellip; Get Me Out of Here!<\/p>\n<p>She was previously an adviser to the former Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Oliver Letwin MP.<\/p>\n<p>In further DCMS moves, Julia Lopez&nbsp;becomes Minister of State, moving from Cabinet Office, and&nbsp;Caroline Dinenage,&nbsp;previously Minister for Digital and Culture, has left Government.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nadine Dorries MP <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NadineDorries?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NadineDorries<\/a> has been appointed Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DCMS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DCMS<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Reshuffle?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Reshuffle<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PjkrEgR9Re\">pic.twitter.com\/PjkrEgR9Re<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/10DowningStreet\/status\/1438169372237959171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk\/2021\/news\/mp-involved-in-past-regional-press-spats-becomes-culture-secretary\/\">MP involved in past regional press spats becomes Culture Secretary<\/a>&nbsp;(HoldtheFrontPage)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nadine Dorries has been appointed Culture Secretary in a reshuffle yesterday.&nbsp;<br \/>\nShe replaces Oliver Dowden who moves to the Cabinet Office and the post of Minister without Portfolio.&nbsp;<br \/>\nMs Dorries&#8217; previous role since May 2020 was Minister at the Department of Health and Social&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2990,"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-2989","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 - 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