There will be lots of movement over in the Parliamentary Press Gallery in the next few weeks.
The Express’s Christian Calgie (formerly of these pixels) is off to the Mail as Senior Political Editor-at-Large, working mainly on the daily paper and occasionally moonlighting for the Mail on Sunday.
Ex-CCHQ press officer Aaron Newbury, who joined the Express as a full-time reporter in January, has been promoted to the paper’s Lobby team as Political Correspondent.
The Spectator has also gone on a hiring spree, picking up The Sun’s Noa Hoffman as its new Political Correspondent and ConservativeHome’s Tali Fraser as a Writer-at-Large. There is also speculation that a vacancy may appear at a certain broadsheet’s political editor rank soon…
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…”