Paul

One presumes that the BBC has come to a parting of the ways with Controller, Policy, Paul Oldfield, who's been in post since 2019. His job has been advertised - though his successor will only be offered a two-year contract. 

Paul joined from the DCMS in the Lord Hall era. He'd been the Department's sherpa on the BBC under mercurial Culture Secretary John Whittingdale, wrangling with his BBC counterpart James Heath on the last Charter Review.  Previously he'd worked on the London Olympics, and was Principal Private Secretary to Jeremy Hunt at DCMS when News Corp backed into BSkyB. Plenty of emails discovered by Leveson....