Guido hears cash-starved CCHQ is going to take quite some time to furnish its newly-appointed Shadow Ministers with personal advisers. One Shadow Cabinet Minister tells Guido: “They’ve got to sort the money first.” The hope is that in six weeks to two months the Tories should find enough behind the sofa to hire some help…
The majority of previous Tory SpAds have of course alighted to the private sector. A Shadow Cabinet source says everyone is relying on CCHQ and CRD to help with briefs. In the meantime the Shadow Chancellor is writing his own parliamentary questions…
Gudio hears that hilariously some Shadow Ministers are planning on fundraising for cash to hire their own advisers. Labour would often complain in opposition that it didn’t have enough resources for their many PAds. The Tories would give an arm for that problem…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”