The winds of change are blowing through Whitehall. With Andy Burnham on course for No. 10, officials are preparing for a shake up of the cabinet. One of those looking most nervous these days is Rachel Reeves, whose tenure at the Treasury looks to be drawing to a close. Among those preparing to take on her would-be successor is Robert Jenrick, whose team has begun sorting through applications for a new chief economic adviser. Talk about a good time to be across the numbers, eh?
But it is not just Labour and Reform who are preparing for new faces in their Treasury teams. Sir Mel Stride, the Shadow Chancellor, has now poached a staple fixture of the Westminster think-tank scene. Stride has hired Callum Price to be his new communications chief, in which capacity he will doubtless do battle with the best spinners in Milbank Tower and 1 Horse Guards Road. Price has plenty of experience, having previously been a special adviser to Simon Clarke, Dominic Raab, Alex Chalk and James Cleverly. He then ran the comms for Cleverly’s leadership bid and has thereafter preached the gospel of free markets at the Institute of Economic Affairs.
With a make-or-break Budget for Burnham on the near-horizon, what better time for the Tories to start tooling up?
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