With about a week to go until the three-month probationary period imposed upon those Starmer SpAds staying on after the transition, most are expected to remain. There can’t be a talent drought in leftist circles, can there?
Guido hears No10 is expected to keep something like 95% of the Starmer SpAds it retained. Who else would they bring in?
Moles in government report that the Burnham administration is struggling to fill policy roles in No10 in particular due to very shallow talent pool. Continuity Burnham…
One government source tells Guido that numerous new SpAds recruited by Burnham were up for consideration in 2024 but were deemed not good enough. “It’s the B-team” – though what does that say about the A-team…
An official in government remarked that the relative juniority and inexperience of some new departmental SpAd teams meant it was much easier for them to be walked over than under Starmer. The blob is merrily blobbing…
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock was asked if Burnham will take Britain back into the EU:
“Yes, sure – his commitment is authentic. He really does understand from the grassroots up why restoring what I think of as normality in our continent is vital for every party economically, politically, culturally, in terms of security, and he’s able to articulate it in language that people can understand. So yeah, he is definitely”.