Oliver Dowden

Mobile phone masts could increase in height (Gareth Fuller/PA)

100ft phone masts may be built to end mobile signal blind spots

April 20, 2021

Boris Johnson will host a round table with representatives from football governing bodies including the FA and the Premier League as well as fans’ representatives on Tuesday to discuss the proposed European Super League (Clive Brunskill/PA)

Boris Johnson to host meeting with football bosses and fans over Super League

April 20, 2021

A selection of scarves pictured at Hackney Marshes, London, of the English soccer Premier League teams (left-right) Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur, who announced in a joint statement they are to join a new European Super League (Yui Mok/PA)

Football authorities consider next move in fight against European Super League

April 20, 2021

The Government has said proposed law changes which would allow telecoms firms to make phone masts taller and wider could wipe out mobile signal blind spots (Ben Birchall/PA)

Government unveils plans to relax mast rules to end mobile signal blind spots

April 20, 2021

Fans protest outside the Leeds stadium against Liverpool’s decision to join a proposed new European Super League ahead of the clubs’ Premier League fixture (Zac Goodwin/PA)

PM vows to show the European Super League a ‘straight red’

April 20, 2021

Football fans opposing the European Super League proposals outside Old Trafford in Manchester (Tim Markland/PA)

Ministers say they will do ‘whatever it takes’ to block breakaway Super League

April 19, 2021

Oliver Dowden has ordered the competition watchdog to begin a ‘phase one’ investigation of the deal (Arm/Nvidia)

Culture Secretary intervenes in Nvidia takeover of UK chip designer Arm

April 19, 2021

Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham and Manchester City announced they have signed up to the plan (PA)

Dowden to make Commons statement on European Super League plan

April 19, 2021

Football clubs who have agreed to join a European Super League ‘must answer to their fans’ before going ahead with the ‘very damaging’ change, the Prime Minister has said (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Boris Johnson condemns ‘very damaging’ European Super League

April 19, 2021

Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the European Super League breakaway plan ‘very damaging’ (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Johnson condemns ‘very damaging’ European Super League proposal

April 18, 2021

Gary Neville has been forthright in his condemnation of plans for a breakaway European Super League (Mike Egerton/PA)

Angry Gary Neville leads backlash to ‘criminal’ Super League plans

April 18, 2021