Lord Hunt will discover he is in some very muddy waters

Who will be the lead tenor in the Complaints Commission drama? Why, Lord Hunt of Wirral (aka David Hunt, three times a Tory cabinet minister but never, alas, a really big cheese). He's a commercial lawyer, an experienced regulator and, in political terms, a 69-year-old blast from the past. He doesn't have much of a public profile. When he moves, nothing shakes. But now he's got at least a year's worth of hard shaking to get on with. Can Hunt, within the timeframe of Leveson's report, put in place a reformed PCC that ticks so many boxes nobody needs to scrap it and start again? Let's hope so. He's a smart, shrewd operator. He'll have Lord Black of Brentwood, Paul Dacre and other heavy hitters behind him. But it's a daunting task for someone who's never splashed in the muddy waters of press regulation – or glimpsed the horrors of building an FT-Sun consensus that can endure once cold winds start to blow.