No10 North is not yet escaping allegations that it is a vanity project. The government is now hiring for a front of house manager there…
For £49,458 the postholder “will be the primary Front of House and event operations presence at No10 North and the key contact for hospitality, visitor experience and on-site event delivery. They will play an important role in representing the Prime Minister’s Office in Manchester and ensuring activity at No10 North is delivered to the highest standard.” It’s all about the visitor experience…
Requirements include taking “a leading role in organising ministerial events held at No10 North, including roundtables, bilateral meetings and intimate receptions,” supporting “media activity in No10 North including supervising visiting media,” and preparing and serving “refreshments for ministerial and senior stakeholder meetings.” How intimate are we talking?
The Cabinet Office has recently hired a media SpAd for No10 North as well as new videographers. There was also recently a briefing that No10 North would be bringing in its own resident cat. Unfortunately no amount of polish can prevent the repercussions of the PM’s own words…
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward said:
“The reality is that it’s Zack Polanski who brought the nation, Andy Burnham. And if we hadn’t had the success of the Green Party in this last year since Zack’s been leading, which has been unprecedented, phenomenal success and a growth from about 60,000 members to 230,000, if we hadn’t had that much pressure on Labour, then we’d probably still be in the Starmer regime, which was pretty much ushering in a Reform government with its lurch to the right. So actually, what we’re seeing now is that we’ve set the political agenda and the government is picking that up.”