Yesterday afternoon Tory staff at CCHQ were informed there would be another round of redundancies. Voluntaries are being asked for first…
There was last a redundancy call after the election when many long-serving staff and election take-ons left of their own accord. That’s before others were asked to leave. About 20% of existing staff left at that point…
This new cull is being framed as a re-organisation of the CCHQ operation towards campaigning. The news has been delivered to each Tory department by their department head – i.e. through normal management channels – as a preamble to a restructuring. No details of that restructuring have so far been given to CCHQ staff…
The news comes on the back of an all-staff address from Kemi last Monday at which the Tory leader complained about poor performance and said those who didn’t believe in the mission “shouldn’t be here.” Guido is told general morale dropped further from that point. CCHQ insiders say they are having to take time out of their jobs to justify their performance to party honchos. One tells Guido: “We’re working ten times harder for no credit.” Usually what happens when the coffers aren’t looking healthy…
A void of funds is obviously blamed for the staff cuts. Party operations always slim down after election losses – safe to say the Tories are heading firmly out of that grace period now…
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…”