Labour under pressure to appoint Tory ex-minister as next Ofcom chair
Liz Kendall urged by online safety figures to hand job to Jeremy Wright ahead of Labour grandee Margaret Hodge Ministers are facing pressure to appoint a former Conservative cabinet minister as the new chair of the media regulator Ofcom, as he battles for the job against a Labour peer. The job of running the regulator has become a key post in public life, as concern over online content has grown rapidly, alongside the rise of more politically partisan broadcasting . No successor has yet been nam
Liz Kendall urged by online safety figures to give job to Jeremy Wright ahead of Labour peer Margaret Hodge
Ministers are facing pressure to appoint a Conservative former cabinet minister as the new chair of the media regulator Ofcom, as he battles for the role against a Labour peer.
The job of running the regulator has become a key post in public life amid concern over the rapid growth of online content and the rise of more politically partisan broadcasting. No successor has been named to replace Michael Grade, the former BBC chair who has just weeks left in the job.
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