One of the many criticisms thrown at the political class is that they become ministers and spokespeople on subjects that they have no experience in, or knowledge of. This cannot be levelled at Chi Onwurah, Jeremy Corbyn’s recently appointed Shadow Minister for Culture & the Digital Economy, and a chartered electrical engineer.
“I went into engineering and I went into technology is because I understood the power of digital from an early age,” she tells CBR.
Onwurah says that a Labour government would focus on “investment in our digital infrastructure,” something she blasts both David Cameron led governments’ record on.
“The coalition government abandoned Labour’s universal broadband commitment for 2012, and then they missed their own targets on having it in place by 2015, and we still have significant areas of the country where you can’t get a even decent broadband signal, never mind a superfast one.” Onwurah says a Labour government would drive towards fibre to the home.
“The government has used the £2-£3bn of public sector subsidy, giving it all to BT to roll out largely where they would have rolled out anyway,” she says.
Although she praises some cyber security measures by the government, such as GCHQ apprenticeships and Cyber Streetwise, however, she describes the recent doubling of the cyber security budget by George Osborne as “a bit of scam actually”. For the full article click here
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