In momentous news CCHQ’s top veteran spinner Alex Wild is leaving his role as the Tories’ Director of Communications. “Tory Source” enjoyed giving the most caustic quotes. Sometimes they were even about the opposition…
Entering Whitehall in 2019 from his role as Research Director at the TaxPayers’ Alliance Wild spun for Priti Patel before heading up the top of the Tory comms machine – with a stint as No 10 Press Secretary. Wild understood better than most what the strengths of the Tory message are…
He says “after four leaders and 10 chairmen it’s time to move on” and will leave at the end of the year. A loss to CCHQ…
Speaking to Sky News off the back of Rachel Reeves’ Air Passenger Duty hike, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said:
“Labour is dependent on those Red Wall seats, and yet every move she makes poisons economic growth and damages the UK’s recovery… it’s the Chancellor who stumbles from policy misstep to policy misstep… I think her policy decisions are incredibly stupid.”