Tories and right-wing press outraged over appointment of new Charity Commission chief

Tories and right-wing press outraged over appointment of new Charity Commission chief

The Tory media is outraged about Mark Simms OBE’s appointment as the new interim head of the Charity Commission, who have accused him of praising so-called “hard-left politicians” and mocking Boris Johnson on social media. But there was no such outrage from the Tories and their right-wing media allies when Orlando Fraser was appointed as head of the charity watchdog by then culture secretary Nadine Dorries in 2022. Fraser stood as a Tory candida…