Oliver Dowden declines to confirm reports PM has offered Charles Moore and Paul Dacre
BBC and Ofcom rolesHardline BBC critics reportedly offered top media rolesThe culture secretary, Oliver Dowden, has declined to confirm a report that two close allies of
Boris Johnson could be parachuted in to head the BBC and Ofcom, but argued that the BBC needed to expand its scope beyond “narrow, metropolitan areas” of the
UK.
Dowden said it was too early to comment on the possibility of former Telegraph editor Charles Moore being made BBC chairman, and the ex-editor of the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre, becoming head of Ofcom, the media regulator.