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Paul Dacre and Boris Johnson: 'the Boston strangler' and the 'alley cat'

27 September 2020

7:28 AM

27 September 2020

7:28 AM

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 comparedto ‘putting the Boston Strangler in charge of the code of practice for door-to-door salesmen’.

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