Ofcom has hired a new Director of Communications: former Remain campaigner and Labour adviser David Chaplin. Impartial comms to be expected?
Chaplin began his political career working for two former Labour MPs Christine McCafferty and Gordon Marsden from 2004 to 2009. He later became a comms adviser to now-Scotland Secretary Douglas Alexander from 2013 to 2015. Labour stooge…
In June 2015, Chaplin took up the role of Strategic Communications Director for the official Remain campaign. Another job well done…
Chaplin was also an executive committee member of left-wing think tank Fabian Society from 2009 to 2019, where he co-authored a report suggesting the BBC follow a “European Coverage Quota” in the fight against the “increasing rise of Euroscepticism”. He’s now about to be at the top table of an organisation responsible for policing the internet…
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”