Wes Streeting is to hire a Labour activist as an impartial civil servant to the Department for Health’s “10 Year Health Plan” team. Tom Kibasi, former director of hard-left think tank IPPR, is the newest crony appointment…
Kibasi, who ran IPPR from 2016 to 2019, helped direct Starmer’s leadership bid – hosting meetings, directing the key advert, and writing lines. He was passed over for a job once the race was over in 2021 and subsequently turned on Starmer’s ‘hard on Corbyn’ approach…
The left-wing wonk has long publicly backed Labour with a history of support for gargantuan tax hikes by taxing capital gains and dividends at income tax rates. Now he’s helping to direct health policy as a supposedly non-partisan civil servant. He can join some of Streeting’s other crony appointments…
Kemi Badenoch at the 1922-ConHome bash last night:
“I did praise [Burnham] for his stamina, it was amazing. All I had to do was sit back and lie there. I didn’t have to do anything at all…”