He gets a man with one month more experience (currently) than Maria Miller as Secretary of State for Culture.
He gets last season's joint top scorer (with 1) for Demon Eyes, a team in the Thames League, with home games played on worn-out artificial grass at Market Road in Islington. Demon Eyes was founded by James, Dan Corry, Tim Allan and Andy Burnham in 1998, from the ashes of a previous side known as Red Menace. Former players include David Miliband, Ed Balls and Ed Richards. More recent players include Stewart Owadally, a community organiser with the Movement for Change, William Paxton, a former adviser to Gordon Brown, and Tom Gash, programme director at the Institute For Government. Mr Purnell plays at centre back.
He gets an Arsenal fan, to add to the BBC's portfolio of Robert Peston, Roger Mosey, Melvyn Bragg, and Lord Patten.
He gets a Balliol, Oxford, alumnus - alongside Jim's friend, Stephanie Flanders. Other chums from James' unversity days include Yvette Cooper and former Conservative thinker Steve Hilton.
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