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There is much speculation about the time at which I become appointed the bailiff of Northstead Manor, as part of the arcane resignation process when standing down as an MP. To put an end to this…
I am awaiting responses to my Subject Access Requests submitted to HOLAC, Cabinet Secretary and the Cabinet Office. where I will then take the time to properly consider the information I am provided.

There is something fundamentally wrong with arms length bodies such as ⁦@ace_national⁩ being given large amounts of public / tax payer funding over which the Secretary of State with departmental responsibility has no say and no control.

thetimes.co.uk/article/253da0… The public don’t pay their taxes for unelected individuals on generous salaries to sit in swanky offices deciding how they think it should be spent.
The reason it happens is to ensure decisions taken are not made with undue political bias.

1/6 For the year I served as SoS in @DCMS Molly Russell and her family were in the back of my mind as we knocked the online safety bill into shape. This week has obviously been utterly harrowing for them and they have been heroic to campaign in the selfless way they have. 2/6 I was proud of where we had got to and grateful to @DCMS officials who worked flat out over the past year to get young and vulnerable people to a place of safety in the complex online world of big tech.

1. Kirsty, I’ve been made aware of your tweets and would like to respond.
‘Mrs Thatcher would be spinning in her grave.’
It is very clear in Mrs Thatchers memoirs, ‘The Downing Street Years,’ that she very much wanted to sell C4 in 1988.

https://twitter.com/KirstieMAllsopp/status/1513193558244798474

2 ‘C4 should be preserved as it is’ - with decreasing advertising revenue and decreasing investment in new content, that is not possible.
‘at least to let it change as it wants, not as the Gov dictates’ - The Government own C4. This fact appears to be lost in the outrage.