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 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.”