I'm not sure who Simon Heffer talks to at Broadcasting House, but he says some are tipping Michael Portillo to be the next Chairman of the BBC. Age does not always add authority, but Michael is 59, and Lord Hall, incoming DG, has just celebrated his 62nd birthday. Michael ran a slightly bigger budget as Defence Secretary up to 1997 than Lord Hall, either at the BBC or the Royal Opera House.
More interesting would be the income choice; do the Railway Journeys (provided there's still some mileage in them) and jousting with Andrew Neil add up to more than the current Chairman's stipend of £110,000 p.a. ?
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