Port­fo­lio spec­u­lates on an out­side can­did­ate for the Robert Thom­son deputy role at the Wall Street Journal:

Lewis has many qual­it­ies of Murdoch’s ideal can­did­ate: busi­ness acu­men (he made waves as a deal reporter for the Fin­an­cial Times in the 1990s), impa­tience for change (the young­est editor of the Tele­graph ever, he has focused on drag­ging it into the digital age), famili­ar­ity with the Mur­doch ethos (he was busi­ness editor of the Sunday Times for three years) and a friend­ship with Thom­son (he was quoted prais­ing him in a recent New York Times profile).

So he’s per­fect. But Lewis says he hasn’t been approached about the job.