Labour is pushing ahead with a hiring spree for civil servants in No10 North. They’ve already sorted their maître d’…
To begin with the government wants a devolution expert to lead the ‘Rewiring the State Unit’ under Louise Haigh as Deputy Director. The main task:
“Working with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, HM Treasury and Departments across government the postholder will drive work to turn the Cabinet Statement commitments on Rewiring the State into a clear strategy and deliverable programme, aligning policy, fiscal, public service and civil service reform levers.”
This will also require filling an entire ‘Rewiring’ unit in No10 North. There go more millions…
No10 North will also get a strategic communications team starting with a new director who will deliver “high-quality internal communications across No.10 North, and stakeholder communications out of No.10 North, to build engagement with, and advocacy for, our work” as well as “identifying collaborative communication opportunities with our key stakeholders within and outside government to tell the devolution, good growth and public service reform story, always focusing on the impact for the people of the UK.” Underlings in that team are already being hired. Better know the Burnham twee comms gimmick off by heart…
No10 North is additionally hiring for its strategic engagement team, which will do partnerships and corporate events and so on. A lot of self-promotion going on…
Not content with stopping there, a whole policy and delivery team is being installed in Manchester. At least three roles hiring there…
Burnham has already hired numerous communications staff to sit in No10 North. The gravy train keeps going – though you can’t polish a…
Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked John Healey: “Just finally, I mean Andy Burnham has been very clear he wants Britain back in the European Union in his lifetime. Do you?”
The Chancellor replied: “I’m older than Andy Burnham. I don’t expect to see that.”