"This is a very significant appointment by the government," said the BBC's transport correspondent Richard Westcott.
Earlier this month, in his most significant appointment thus far, he named an outsider, a Catholic intellectual like himself from the former opposition, as Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, the agency that runs the police, including the old secret security apparatus.
The fact that Johnson's elevation was delayed until Ofcom assumed full power makes him its first really significant appointment and he represents a clean break from the kind of person chosen by the ITC.
The most significant appointment is that of Elizabeth Harpel Kehler, a member of the company's board and its 15-member executive committee, as the company's executive director.
In the most significant appointment, the former minister David Heathcoat-Amoreturnsrns to the frontbench as a member of the work and pensions team.
It is the only significant appointment Archbishop Dolan has made to date.
But perhaps his most significant appointment was as the Vandervell professor of pharmacology at the Royal College of Surgeons in London (1960-73).
From the age of 7 to her death in her 70's, she manages, or is managed, to keep almost every significant appointment in the evolving Mexican story.
