OFCOM - we won!

Despite the government's insistence that they install a 'safe pair of hands' to run OFCOM, the UK regulator, Paul Dacre has pulled out of the running.

Out of the running.  Paul Dacre won't head OFCOM.

 

It seems the government backed down when the legal pressure group, The Good Law Project, issued a pre-action letter to the government, announcing that, unless proper and lawful appointments processes were adhered to, an application for judicial review would be made to the courts.

So, whilst we are rid of Dacre's danger, we now wait to see who next might be thrust forward to run this, the most unfit-for-purpose government agency.