Day: July 29, 2021

I have just spent hours drafting a letter for our hard-pressed Information Commissioner (IC) to send to the Secretary of State at the DCMS (Oliver Dowden).  It reads: “Dear Ollie.  Sod off. I’m independent.  Lots of love.  Lizzie”. Of course such a letter won’t be sent, but it should be.  The reason: there have now have been three attempts (at least) where the independence of the current or future IC is under attack by Ministers. The problem is that Government