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Boris Johnson tried to fix who got to be the Watergate Ofcom, the UK's supposedly independent media regulator.
Boris Johnson tes the broadcast media in the UK and is, as they say, arm’s length Ofcom gover UK ent.
But because this story involves the BBC, an opaque government appointments process and the notoriously rackety Johnson Downing Street operation, it's apparently just something to be shrugged at.
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