Rio Tinto changes its designated driver

World’s second-biggest mining company bows to behind-the-scenes lobbying and ditches Sir Mick Davis as its choice for chairmanCongratulations, Simon Thompson, current non-executive director of Rio Tinto, you are deemed sufficiently safe to step up to the chairmanship. The world’s second biggest mining company didn’t describe the appointment in this way, of course – but nor did it refer to the extraordinary behind-the-scenes lobbying that killed the hopes of the board&rsqu