The former Deputy Prime Minister met Dame Melanie Dawes shortly before he reportedly tried to interfere with the appointment of a new chairman of the watchdog.
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Former Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre (PA)
The race to find the next Ofcom chair will be “re-run,” the government has revealed – with former
Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre said to be facing opposition from the online tech giants in his bid to land the job.
Culture secretary Oliver Dowden has written to the public appointments commissioner to ask for the interviewing process to restart.
Mr Dowden has decided the existing process to find next chair of the media watchdog has been deficient and there is reason to put a new selection panel in place,
Nick Clegg bids to derail Paul Dacre s campaign to chair Ofcom
Facebook s PR chief leads lobbying effort against his former Fleet Street nemesis
Sir Nick Clegg has reignited hostilities with Paul Dacre by attacking the former
The former Liberal Democrat leader, now head of Facebook’s international political operation, has joined forces with Google to persuade ministers against appointing Mr Dacre, who has called for tech giants to be broken up.
The companies are understood to have lobbied against giving the job to the 72-year-old Fleet Street veteran, who has privately signalled his determination to spearhead the successful implementation of new online harms laws. These aim to hold Google and Facebook to account for child sexual abuse images, terrorist material and suicide content carried on their services.