Guido’s combed through today’s SpAd pay band document to find updates to his SpAd list. The relatively few changes are listed below:

• Allegra Stratton formally moves from the joint Treasury/No. 10 SpAd team to Boris’s No. 10 team
• Rory Geoghegan fills the home affairs vacancy in No. 10’s policy unit, filling the gap left by Blair Gibbs after leaving to join Public First
  • A former poster boy police officer, Rory left the Met in 2016 after being offered no support weeks after being shot at on duty.
  • Set up the Centre for Public Safety in 2016, before becoming head of criminal justice as the CSJ in 2017
• Rory Gribbell joins No. 10’s policy unit as their new education lead
  • A former advisor to Nick Gibb, Rory joined No. 10 in July. A former teacher and former member of Labour.
• Sophia True moves from DEFRA to the No. 10 press office
  • A former press advisor to CCHQ having worked on Zac Goldsmith’s mayoral campaign
• Ross Allan returns to No. 10; Logan Graham and Philip Peters join.
  • Guido’s asked whether Allan’s rejoined No. 10’s Brexit department, have originally worked there in 2019; sources deny this while failing to specify his current job
• Will Sweet joined the Foreign Office after DfID was merged.
  • His fellow DfID SpAd, Will Holloway, left at the time and was today announced the new Deputy Director of Onward
• New Defence appointment: Daisy Peck
  • Public Affairs Consultant with six years experience of campaign management for the Conservative Party; a member of the reserves.
• Natasha Adkins departs BEIS to become the new COP26 advisor to the President-Designate
• New DWP appointment: Ed Winfield
  • A former parliamentary assistant to Therese Coffey before departing in 2014 to become a manager at Accenture UK’s Health and Public Service practice
• New Welsh department appointment: Olivia Williams
• New Scottish office appointment: John Cooper

SpAds will be delighted to learn that Guido’s seminal list is now, for the first time and in the interests of transparency, ordered by pay band…

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