The battle David Dinsmore will face as new editor of The Sun

David Dinsmore, the former editor of the Scottish Sun, has just been named new editor of The Sun replacing Dominic Mohan. Dinsmore was very well-liked in Glasgow by those who worked for him (he’s also a Spectator reader, which speaks well of anyone). Educated at Strathallan School (where he wrote for its shortlived socialist newspaper Turn Left along with Dominik Diamond) he started working in local newspapers aged 17 and worked his first shift on the Sun aged 22. He was made Scottish Sun editor in 2006 and came down to London as The Sun’s managing editor and eight months ago was  promoted to News International’s board. (In the Murdoch empire, managerial secondments are often the precursor to editorial promotion.) Mohan’s Sun has socked it to Cameron in recent months, and I from what little I know of Dinsmore I doubt he’ll be any easier for No10 to seduce.  He said that the joy of his appointment was ‘tempered by the ongoing ordeal’ faced by the 20 (and counting) Sun journalists who have been arrested as part of the Met’s investigation into paying tip-off fees to public officials.