@mitexleo One of the earlier iterations allowed the Digital Minister to overrule the nominally independent (though, they tried to appoint the editor of a populist right wing paper who was one of their allies*) "regulator" whenever she saw fit to.

The House of Lords was supposedly going to do something about this aspect of it. I don't know if they did in the end.

The Digital Minister who came up with the bill was Nadine Dorries.

* https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/nov/19/paul-dacre-pulls-out-of-running-next-ofcom-chair