Indy executive editor Lisa Markwell replaces John Mullin as editor of the Sindy.

Another female editor at a Lebedev paper, as Evgeny has been quick to stress…

The majority of the newspaper industry has rejected the Royal Charter. They will submit their own rival version to the Queen. Full details from the World at One:

• All national papers except Indy and Guardian have signed up to alternate charter free from political interference, but Indy and Guardian editors think this is a good idea “to get the ball rolling” and “reopen” the conversation.
• Principle of Royal Charter accepted, but on own terms.
• Fines up to £1 million for systematic wrongdoing.
• Full and prominent corrections.
• Open and transparent appointment of members to independent overseeing board.
• Public involvement in code of practice.

Can anyone possibly be surprised we have rejected Lab-Lib-Hackedoff stitch up- not forgetting walk on role for sleepy Letwin.(PM was in bed)—
Tony Gallagher (@gallaghereditor) April 25, 2013

Sun editor: "Sun readers expect journalists to behave responsibly, but don’t want them censored by a state-sponsored Ministry of Truth."—
Media Guido (@MediaGuido) April 25, 2013

Evan Harris isn’t going to be happy…

UPDATE:

The Editors of the Times and Sunday Times, as well as the the Managing Editor and CEO of News International have all put out video statements explaining the new plan. Here.

For some reason Ipsos Mori haven’t taken kindly to a ‘Labour source’ telling LabourList’s Mark Ferguson that they “consistently brief highly selective data to create misleading impressions”. In a withering riposte on their website, they insist things really are that bad for Ed:

“Mr Ferguson’s complaint appears to be about Joe Murphy’s coverage of our questions about Ed Miliband in the Evening Standard. He states that “To read the report you’d think that the results were abnormally bad for Ed Miliband (as it happens, Cameron was far further behind Brown at this stage than Miliband is behind Cameron)”, and Joe Murphy himself reported that “A Labour source said David Cameron was further behind Gordon Brown at the same stage in the last Parliament.” But the results are, all, abnormally bad for Ed Miliband, and Cameron was not further behind Brown at the same stage in the last parliament… We therefore request that Mr Ferguson:

• provides evidence for or corrects his assertion that Cameron was further behind Brown than Miliband is behind Cameron at this stage of the parliament;
• makes it clear in his piece that the changes in satisfaction for both Cameron and Miliband since last month are not statistically significant.”

Fight…

MediaGuido understands that ITV News political correspondent and Vince Cable pacemaker Alex Forrest is leaving the Lobby. She is off to live in Copenhagen for a couple of years. Congrats…

UPDATE:

@dylsharpe @MediaGuido Thanks! Sad to leave the lobby and @itvnews but looking forward to Copenhagen – and more Borgen!—
Alex Forrest (@alexforrestitv) April 24, 2013

One hacked tweet yesterday and the DOW plunges 100 points, only to regain it all in a matter of minutes. The AP twitter account has been restored this afternoon, the offending tweet deleted, and normality returns to the markets…

A big scoop for the Guardian’s home affairs editor Alan Travis…

David Cameron about to confirm temporarily withdrawing from the european convention of human rights to enable sending Qatada back to Jordan—
Alan Travis (@alantravis40) April 24, 2013

…but one that will remain exclusive. Theresa May has confirmed withdrawal has not been agreed, so a spectacular misfire from the Guardian. Home Office sources tell Guido they have no idea where the briefing is coming from. Oops.

The Sun having some fun at the Loverson lovers’ expense today.

“No indication of huge Romanian-Bulgarian influx”, is the BBC spin from their poll of potential migrants to the UK. The reassuring results show just 4.2% of Bulgarians and 1% of Romanians are making definite plans to come to Britain in 2013 or 2014. For some reason the Beeb haven’t mentioned how that translates into actual real numbers. 4.2% of 4.67 million working age Bulgarians equals 196,140, and 1% of 15.3 million working age Romanians equates to 153,000, making a pretty daunting total of 349,140. Not that you’d hear that number from the BBC themselves…

A month ago in his Sun column Guido revealed that UKIP are already up and running on the ground in Portsmouth South in anticipation that self-confessed teen fondler Mike Hancock will be forced out, triggering a by-election. Today Farage has confirmed he is predicting a by-election this summer, telling a press gallery lunch that he thinks UKIP will win. Dave will note the several Tory MPs quaffing Merlot with the hack pack as Farage confessed he had been a frequenter of lap-dancing establishments, laid into Leveson and endorsed Gove for PM. He knows his audience…

Taking Polly Toynbee’s increasingly fact-free rants with a pinch of salt is generally good advice, but there is a difference between her standard spin and a complete falsehood. In a typical Gove-bashing piece for the Guardian today Polly asserts:

“Gove, calling for payment by results, cited Singapore’s high-achieving school system, “where expectations are higher”. What he didn’t say is that Singapore, like top performer Finland, is one of the most equal of developed nations. As his government drives up inequality, his schools face an ever tougher task compensating for the society they inhabit.”

Only Singapore isn’t one of the most equal developed nations. In fact, it is one of the most unequal. The country is currently dealing with one of the most severe income gaps in the world, indeed it has one of the highest Gini coefficients – the standard measure used to gauge inequality – of developed countries. But why let the facts get in the way of your see-through agenda, eh Polly?