As Labour gears up to trumpet its cession of more sovereignty to the EU, the Cabinet Office has treated its ‘EU Reset Unit’ staff to an away day. Relax while you can, you’re the gambit that’s meant to save Starmer’s premiership now…
The ‘EU Relations Secretariat’ in the Cabinet Office numbers around 80 staff and is now the heart of Starmer’s pitch to SecurEUcracy. Government insiders tell Guido that the “pampered” secretariat has the “swankiest floor in the building” and regularly hoards the best meeting rooms. Michael Ellam, Head of European and International Economic Affairs and former director of communications for Gordon Brown, is said to have the nicest office of them all…
Along with having facilities to rival ministerial private offices, the secretariat was treated to an away day last Thursday before the government began briefing that an EU single market push was on the way. Nice for some…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”