Lucy Powell
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Born | Lucy Maria Powell 10 October 1974 Manchester, Great Britain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Oxford University/Somerville College, King's College London | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Member of | Labour Friends of Israel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Interests | Internet censorship | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Party | Labour | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Labour MP, frontbencher under Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer. "Social media anti-vax misinformation is a matter of life or death"
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Lucy Powell is a Labour MP and member of the shadow cabinet since 2015.
She wants government action against "deadly anti vaxxer conspiracy theories and disinformation on social media.[1]
BBC policy
In March 2023, she announced a root and branch review of the BBC’s operations follow8ing the Gary Lineker controversy.[2]
The members of the panel are:
- Steve Morrison, former Granada TV director of programmes and chief executive
- James Purnell, former BBC director of strategy and culture secretary under Labour
- June Sarpong, the BBC’s first director of creative diversity
- Lou Cordwell, chair of the Greater Manchester Local Enterprise Partnership
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