The newly-created Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister has cleared out the Cabinet Office SpAds and brought his own personnel in. Another reset completed…
Jospeh Knight, John Stevens, and James Kilmartin have left the department. Knight has gone to MHCLG and Stevens and Kilmartin left with McFadden to help with his downgraded DWP role…
Jones has brought Felicity Slater in from the Treasury as well as Adam Ludlow from the Labour Party insights team, to provide comms support. He already has a SpAd under the ‘Chief Secretary’ title – Callum Monro, who was working for Ian Murray at the Scotland Office. Jones, who is basically an additional Prime Minister, now has to wrestle with a dysfunctional Cabinet Office. The last month has seen Starmer operate a ‘shuffle the chairs until government magically starts working’ strategy…
Guido’s SpAd list is the definitive tracker of moves in government. Any moves? Let us know at team@order-order.com…
