Barbara Woodward has been announced as the new Deputy National Security Adviser today in the Cabinet Office. A role in the public eye thanks to her now-colleague Matt Collins…
Woodward, currently the UK Permanent Representative to the UN and previously the ambassador to China, starts in December in the international affairs brief. She served in China from 2003 to 2009 and was in 2015 appointed ambassador, a role she held until 2020. ‘Beijing Barbara’, as she is known in the Foreign Office and intelligence community, was mooted for the job in the summer…
She missed out on the C job in SIS earlier this year to Blaise Metreweli. There is some significant churn at the senior ranks of the Cabinet Office – a sign of its quite severe dysfunction…
Guido also hears that David Dinsmore has started today as “permanent secretary for communications.” He’s said that one of his three priorities is making sure government communicates policy to the public better. That would be the job description, mate…
Dinsmore’s contentious entry marks the last of the planned shake-ups to comms this season. Starmer currently hoping that just one more rejig to the communications operation will do it…
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