C4 BOSS: I WON’T MOVE TO LEEDS

MINISTERS planning to privatise Channel 4 were unimpressed when chief executive Alex Mahon opened the broadcaster’s new Leeds HQ — and promptly said that, of course, she wouldn’t be moving to Yorkshire.

‘This is not about where I live,’ she said. ‘The most important thing is where we are spending the money and what viewers see on screen.’

She added that the new base had ‘made people reconsider the old prejudice that you can only run a media career if you stay in London’.

But Islington to Ilkley is still a step too far for the liberal media boss class.