It is not just Donald Trump’s White House which is getting a shake-up. After the Channel 4 sting in September prompted several key aides to leave Nigel Farage’s operation, Reform UK is rebooting their press team too. Ed Sumner is taking over from Dan Jukes as Farage’s Director of Communications while Robert Jenrick, the party’s Treasury spokesman, is losing the services of his trusty media man, Tom Milford. He becomes the party’s Head of Press at just 26 so roll up, roll up any ambitious hacks who want to replace him. Such as Milford’s disgust at the last government that he actually voted Reform – despite Jenrick still being a Tory MP at the time….
Elsewhere, Miles Goslett, the award-winning investigative journalist brought in to much fanfare earlier this year, is moving to head up a research-based department. Watch out CRD, eh? It comes as Farage’s party add two further hires to the press office at the end of the month, bringing the total number to eight. ‘This is before we triple the size of the creative and social media teams’, a plugged-in source told Mr S, ‘with new hires on the way from major outlets and companies.’ Sounds like that £72 million might offer wary recruits some much-needed danger money.
With Farage on the road again this week in Wolverhampton, additional hands cannot come soon enough…
Comments