Labour says nothing in James Wharton’s background suggests he is suitable for role
Boris Johnson’s Tory leadership campaign manager has been named as the government’s preferred candidate to take up a leading role in an independent watchdog charged with regulating universities.
The education secretary, Gavin Williamson, said James Wharton, a former Tory MP who ran Johnson’s 2019 campaign to succeed Theresa May as party leader, would bring “strategic direction” to the post of chair of the Office for Students (OfS).
