Patten: new DG will be appointed ‘within weeks’

Chris Patten

Lord Patten has promised that a new BBC director general will be in place in the next “few weeks” and will be tasked with launching a “radical structural overhaul” of the corporation.

New boss will oversee ‘radical’ overhaul

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