Tory shadow ministers are plodding along without any personal advisers while CCHQ “sorts the money” and looks to hire within two months. They’re being aided by central staff from CCHQ and CRD in their briefs – though Guido hears many of them aren’t long for this world either, especially with an eye on the lack of funds. There will be a shakeup before too long…
The expectation in central office was that a Jenrick win would facilitate rapid sackings over a night-of-the-long-knives weekend or two. Guido hears from staff that it was “all happy families in the office” when Kemi came in. That moment having passed, senior Tories are now eyeing a date to push through more extensive personnel changes. If they can find the talent or the cash to replace them…
Kemi has been chatting to staff in CCHQ. It’s been a ghost ship with a skeleton crew in the long period since the election…
They key points as briefed out by the Tories are:
Shadow Cabinet announcements are inbound. Ahead of an actually-combative PMQs on Wednesday…
Robert Jenrick on the Today programme:
“Can you now give a guarantee to your listeners this morning that no BBC presenter in the future will be exposed as a paedophile, as a number have been in the recent past? No, of course you can’t…”