PR week, the gossip-laden magazine for political apparatchiks and comms people will no doubt set tongues wagging with their latest installment of Brown baiting. According to the mag rag:
Hordes of senior Labour special advisers are said to be passing their CVs to headhunters and recruitment consultants amid concern that their stock is falling. With Gordon Brown’s poll ratings plummeting, many Labour aides are now understood to be enquiring about roles at PR consultancies and large companies. A September cabinet reshuffle is also on the cards.
Full marks to Ros Kindersley (a PR Manager) for stirring the cauldron of uncertainty:
The political climate is changing, and whenever there’s a change in the political climate we get enquiries. More people are open to moving. It’s been across the board, including people in the top ranks.’
So which Special Advisers (SpAds) do people most want? (according to PR week and people they know)
- Geoffrey Norris who is residing at No.10 (business and economic adviser)
- Alan Johnson’s special adviser Mario Dunne is also said to be in demand,
- Des Brown’s special adviser and former Number 10 director of political operations John McTernan .
- John Hutton’s special advisers John Williams and John Woodcock are also being eyed by PR consultancies.
Stir, stir, stir…
