David Dillon is a British journalist who was appointed editor of The Mail on Sunday newspaper in December 2021.
In the early 2010s, he worked on the story concerning the then secretary of state for energy and climate change, Chris Huhne, swapping speeding points with his then wife Vicky Pryce; both were later jailed.
[1] In April 2022, he faced criticism over the newspaper's allegations that the deputy leader of the Opposition, Angela Rayner, had tried to distract Boris Johnson in the House of Commons by crossing and uncrossing her legs.
The Independent Press Standards Organisation reported that it had received 5,500 complaints about the article and was exploring possible breaches of its code of practice.
[3] The speaker of the House, Lindsay Hoyle, asked Dillon to attend a meeting to discuss the report.