Last month Guido unveiled the 2024 Nepo-Baby Candidate List. Now he is happy to release the next in the series – the Nepo-Baby SpAd List. Here are the SpAds proving that climbing up the greasy Westminster pole can be fun for the whole family…

• Alice Hopkin, Home Office SpAd, is the daughter of James Cleverly donor the car dealer Glyn Hopkin.
• Horatio Lovering, in No 10’s political unit, is the son of No 10 Head of Operations Lisa Lovering. Bonus points: Lisa’s daughter (and Horatio’s sister) Antigone Lovering has a job as Sunak’s staffer in his Parliamentary office…
• Simon Finkelstein, Treasury SpAd, is either former Private Secretary to the Chancellor Tamara Finkelstein’s son or nephew* and definitely Lord Finkelstein’s nephew.
• Sophia True, Energy Security SpAd, is Lord True’s daughter.
• Sophia Falkner, in No 10’s political unit, is the daughter of EHRC chief Baroness Kishwer Falkner.
• John Bew, No 10’s foreign affairs adviser, is the son of Lord Bew, Chair of the House of Lords Appointments Commission until last year.
• Eleanor Shawcross, running the Cabinet Office’s Delivery Unit, is married to Lord Wolfson and is the daughter of the current Commissioner for Public Appointments, William Shawcross.

Staffers around Westminster are always amused to hear lines like: “Hold on, I’ve just got to pick my Dad up from the Lords”. Remember, Guido isn’t accusing them of nepotism, though politics has always been a family business…

*Different source say different.