Michael Simmonds to join interview panel as ‘independent member’, with Paul Dacre favoured for the role
A former Tory adviser who is married to a Conservative MP will help select the next chair of the media regulator Ofcom, the government has confirmed.
Michael Simmonds worked as an adviser to Conservative ministers during the 1990s before co-founding the polling company Populus. He is the husband of the former schools minister Nick Gibb – and therefore the brother-in-law of the BBC board member Sir Robbie Gibb, a former Downing Street communications chief under Theresa May.
