“Sadiq Khan has been appointed as the Minister of State for Transport on 8 June 2009.”

I have just come across this sentence on the DfT web site. Forgive me for being pedantic but it is not English. Either he was appointed on or he has been appointed. You can’t combine the two tenses.

Who cares, you might say. I do. If the government can’t even get its grammar right, what hope is there for the trains to run on time???

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