Boris Johnson‘s significant cabinet reshuffle yesterday (September 15), Dorries has taken on the job as head of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), replacing Oliver Dowden.Following Dorries’ appointment, many across the music and culture industry have been sharing previous opinions and comments from the new chief, including when she claimed that comedy was being killed by “left-wing snowflakes” and that the BBC was “a biased left-wing organisation which is seriously failing in its political representation, from the top down”.One tweet, from 2017, has been widely shared since yesterday’s appointment.
In it, Dorries wrote: “Left-wing snowflakes are killing comedy, tearing down historic statues, removing books from universities,.
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