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Kogan endorsed to chair football regulator but urged to act ‘impartially’
Screen grab of David Kogan, the government's preferred candidate for the Chair of the Independent Football Regulator, at the House of Commons, London, May 7, 2025

DAVID KOGAN has been endorsed to chair football’s independent regulator by a select committee of MPs but has been urged to take “concrete steps” to demonstrate he will act impartially.

Kogan told MPs on the culture, media and sport committee on Wednesday that he donated to the Labour leadership campaigns of Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy in 2020, and has also made financial contributions to other members of the party.

He insisted despite those connections to Labour he was not “susceptible to political pressure.”

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