It looks like Number 10 are hiring more Cameron-era staff. Guido hears the soon-to-be former Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales, Jean-Christophe Gray, is set to be the new Head of the Delivery Unit in Downing Street. Gray was Cameron’s official spokesperson from 2012-2015. He is yet another Oxbridge history graduate and his resume shows he is a career civil servant generalist with no real world private sector business experience. Clearly the dynamic change-maker you want to get things done.  So perfect from the blob’s point of view to lead on the operational delivery of Rishi’s priorities coming up to an election…

UPDATE:  At the Downing Street briefing this morning we asked the PM’s spokesman (Oxford, PPE) what qualified Jean-Christophe Gray (Oxford, History) to head the Delivery Unit when his predecessors had actual private-sector, real world experience. The PM’s spokesman was a bit stumped and eventually managed to say the appointment was the result of a “robust, competitive process”.  Just how bad were the other applicants?