The Times [paywalled] claims the BBC's James Purnell has been tapped up for the upcoming vacancy at Ofcom, "although he is understood to have turned down Ofcom's advances."
James is on £315,000 as Director of Radio & Education; outgoing Ofcom CEO Sharon White earned £459,623 in the last full year, which included performance bonus, benefits in kind and pension contributions. Ofcom's headhunters, Russell Reynolds, say the base salary for her successor will be £315k plus up to 20% bonus.
There would have been an elegant circularity if James had bitten; he was part of the team that thought up Ofcom in the first place. But then, he's also been Culture Secretary...
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