Varun Chandra, No10’s business adviser, is hiring two new SpAds. On LinkedIn…
He said the “No10 Business, Investment and Trade Unit is recruiting two special advisers to work at the intersection of public policy, business and politics.” Safe to say this new LinkedIn trend has never been standard practice…
No10’s new SpAds will respectively cover business and investor engagement and ‘private sector relations’. Can’t polish a…
Businesses have of course mostly given up on Labour after the sham charm offensive by Reeves and Starmer. The job ad details themselves reveal a difficulty with engagement and structure in the government’s business approach but this is by Guido’s count the third time SpAds have been hired in public and on LinkedIn instead of through the usual back channels to faithful apparatchiks. How has the party not cultivated talent in the last 16 years…
No10 North and the Home Office have both hired this way already. Numerous SpAds Labour brought into the Burnham government post-transition were around in 2024 when Labour won but were passed up by Starmer’s team because they were not deemed good enough. Starmer’s SpAds stayed on in large numbers too. No10 has already been struggling to fill its policy unit. Looking for talent outside means there is none in the tent…
Mail commentator Dan Hodges – who was kind to Burnham during the Makerfield campaign – now concludes: “The truth is Andy Burnham doesn’t have a 10 year plan. He’s barely got a 10 week plan.“