By John McCarthy

Conservative peer Lady Noakes has agreed to stop posting political tweets after Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman complained they harmed the impartiality required to be an Ofcom deputy chair.

Following Harman dubbing Noakes “a Tory stooge” in an open letter to culture secretary Sajid Javid complaining that the tweets breached Ofcom’s legislated requirement for impartiality on Thursday, a spokesperson for the deputy chair admitted the comments “were not appropriate” for an Ofcom board member, according to the Guardian.

Ofcom chair Patrician Hodgson, in a letter to Javid said that lady Noakes is “resolutely committed to ensuring [Ofcom’s] independence” and that “[the] political Read full story ›

Source: The Drum