Former cabinet minister Michael Gove has been appointed as editor of The Spectator magazine, replacing Fraser Nelson, who ran Britain’s oldest magazine for 15 years. This comes after the Tory bible was bought by GB News co-owner Sir Paul Marshall. Gove will start his new job on 8th October. All change at Old Queen Street…
UPDATE: In a very gracious article by him on vacating the editor’s chair Fraser Nelson says:
“There’s never a good time to leave a job like mine but, after 15 years and a new owner with big ambitions, there is an obvious time.”
Fraser also write that Charles Moore will be the new chairman, replacing Andrew Neil, and that he has been offered the role of associate editor.
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”