Damian McBride is back doing comms again. It’s been a long road…
McPoison was hired by Yvette Cooper as a policy SpAd last year strictly to “lead on fraud policy.” McBride last did spin and attack for Emily Thornberry at which point he led on Labour’s hypocritical “GPC Files” project…
As Cooper’s other four SpAds go on various holidays throughout Summer Guido hears McBride is back doing communications work for Cooper and has been picking up on it generally. This comes at the same time as the Home Office press operation becomes increasingly combative with journalists. Unflushable…
Speaking to Sky News off the back of Rachel Reeves’ Air Passenger Duty hike, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said:
“Labour is dependent on those Red Wall seats, and yet every move she makes poisons economic growth and damages the UK’s recovery… it’s the Chancellor who stumbles from policy misstep to policy misstep… I think her policy decisions are incredibly stupid.”