Guido hears that Reform UK has hired Miles Goslett into the newly created post of chief communications officer, with a hand on the party’s overall media operation and special projects. There’s talk of Farage wanting to use his own channels such as the Reform podcast and Substack account to be more proactive alongside the traditional mediums of print and broadcast…
The party is currently gearing up for a general election. Goslett – an award-winning journalist – is remembered by Fleet Street colleagues as the bête noire of the BBC, which he mercilessly held to account on various papers for years before running the London bureau of Rupert Murdoch’s anti-woke website Heat Street. More recently he’s been a consultant for clients including ex-Tory deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft, who credits him as “chief researcher” in several of his unauthorised political biographies – including his latest, The Farage Factor…
Guido has read Goslett’s own book, An Inconvenient Death, which examines the Dr David Kelly affair. If it’s anything to go by, he should have the necessary forensic skills to help prevent the kind of slip-ups for which Reform’s developed an unfortunate reputation. A compelling challenge – good luck…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”