Paul Dacre, the former editor of the Daily Mail, has reportedly been asked by the Prime Minister to chair the broadcasting regulator Ofcom.
This is the same Paul Dacre who, when put in charge of the Press Complaints Commission, Boris Johnson compared to ‘putting the Boston Strangler in charge of the code of practice for door-to-door salesmen’.
The same Paul Dacre who, when Boris Johnson was elected Tory leader, said that ‘the party of family values has chosen as leader a man of whom to say he has the morals of an alley cat would be to libel the feline species’.
To Mr Steerpike, this doesn’t seem like the best start to a working relationship. Dacre is expected to take over from Lord Burns at the press regulator, after he was wooed by the Prime Minister over drinks in Downing Street in February, according to The
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