The Latest Breaking News from Oliver Dowden

Boris Johnson ‘desperate’ to visit Ukraine, says Tory party chair

Oliver Dowden says PM has a ‘real emotional connection’ with the Ukrainian people but No 10 sources say a trip is unlikely

The Guardian - UK · Mar 21, 2022

Boris Johnson is ‘desperate’ to visit Ukraine, says Oliver Dowden

The Tory party chairman sought to justify the proposed visit as in order to ‘experience what is happening there’.

The Independent UK · Mar 21, 2022

Boris Johnson is 'desperate' to visit war-torn Ukraine, says top Tory

Party chairman Oliver Dowden appeared to confirm reports the Prime Minister, who feels "a real emotional connection with the suffering of the Ukrainian people", wishes to travel to Kyiv

Daily Mirror · Mar 21, 2022

Boris Johnson to launch two-year election campaign in May

Tory chair hits out at ‘net zero dogma’, Corbynistas and ‘cancel culture brigade’

The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2022

Jacob Rees-Mogg says Ukraine war shows Partygate scandal was just ‘fluff’ – as it happened

Brexit minister says people will find Partygate scandal ‘fundamentally trivial’ in the context of war in Ukraine

The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2022

Dowden: Tories will fight election with candidates from ‘all walks of life’

Tory chairman Oliver Dowden will say the “new Conservative Party” will represent “mill towns and mining towns as well as the metropolis”.

The Independent UK · Mar 17, 2022

Conservative boss says Leeds has 'very strong transport links' and no one at their new city HQ has complained

Oliver Dowden officially opened the Tories' new headquarters at Wellington Place

Leeds Live · Mar 11, 2022

Scared to be ‘woke’? It’s time for progressives to take a stand in the culture wars

Topics such as empire and racism cannot be reduced to a threadbare concept like ‘wokery’. Labour must campaign for social justice on its own terms, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The Guardian - UK · Feb 21, 2022

You can’t erase history. But if you lived on Prince Andrew Way, you might have a go

Thanks to the Duke of York and Oliver Dowden’s preposterous war on woke, the culture wars are now being fought in a street near you, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2022

The British public won’t swallow the Tories’ half-baked ‘war on woke’

We can see through Oliver Dowden’s US-style bluster as a mere distraction from the country’s real problems, says journalist Jon Allsop

The Guardian - UK · Feb 17, 2022