Government sources tell Guido Dinsmore is due to start the job in November 2025. No dice (yet?) for Tim Allan despite the breathless Sunday Times briefing…
Chief Executive of Government Communications Simon Baugh – Dinsmore’s effective predecessor once he enters post – held an ’emergency’ all-staff meeting this morning to explain Dinsmore’s appointment to staff. The recruitment process has been underway for months, a formal press notice has been drafted this morning…
Pearl-clutching Labour types are predictably uncomfortable with a Sun man entering government – they seem to have forgotten that staggeringly the paper actually endorsed Starmer as PM during the general election. Officials are grumbling that there are: “growing concerns about his appointment from staff at the coalface and what signals his Starmer-agreed appointment sends to the Civil Service.” Not very grateful…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”