Tony Gallagher confirmed as new editor of the Times

Tony Gallagher: ‘I am delighted and enormously proud to take on the editorship of the Times, the first paper I subscribed to as a teenage schoolboy.’ Photograph: News UK/PA

Tony Gallagher has been confirmed as the new editor of the Times, with journalists at the paper speculating on whether he will shift its political tone further to the right.

Gallagher, who was deputy editor at the paper, takes over from John Witherow, who has stepped down after nine years at the helm.