Damian Collins on the future of British Conservatives and social media
The Two Matts
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4.4 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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The Matts are joined by Damian Collins - former Tory minister who launched a national inquiry into fake news and election interference. How can we protect society from online harm? How can government’s hope to contain the whims of a man like Elon Musk? And what does he make of Kemi Badenoch’s first months as leader of the Conservatives? The Matts also explore his fascination with two giants of a bygone era, David Lloyd George and Theodore Roosevelt. What would they make of today’s political carnival? Enjoy!
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| 0:57.4 | Hello and welcome to the Two Mats podcast this Monday evening. Welcome. We are joined. Very glad to be |
| 1:03.0 | joined by Damien Collins. Damien, welcome. Thank you. Damien was UK minister, Conservative UK |
| 1:09.3 | Minister for Tech and Digital Economy and chair of the DCMS, Digital Media, Culture and Sport Select Committee. |
| 1:17.8 | You chaired the Joint Committee of the UK Parliament, which led the scrutiny of the online safety bill, which passed into law in 23. |
| 1:25.7 | And is going to be enacted this year. |
| 1:28.5 | It's operationally live in March. |
| 1:30.0 | In March, right. |
| 1:30.8 | And that is a massive topic. |
| 1:32.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:33.3 | Talk about. |
| 1:34.4 | You lost your seat in the general election last year. |
| 1:37.7 | You have the ignominy of being the first Tory to lose Fokston in, what was it, 70 years? |
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