On this episode, we hear about two of probably the most influential figures inside Keir Starmer’s camp: his marketing campaign director, Morgan McSweeney, and his chief of workers, Sue Grey.
“McSweeney might be probably the most influential individual on this transformation of the Labour occasion, and by a long way,” Jessica Elgot, the Guardian’s deputy political editor, tells Michael Safi. “He understands all of the mechanisms within the occasion that provide you with energy, the issues which might be a barrier to the chief’s success.”
Jess additionally explains why Sue Grey, the previous “formidable operator in Whitehall”, grew to become the choose for the Labour chief of workers function.
“She had a status that was simply fully unmatched, even earlier than the general public actually knew about Sue Grey,” Jess says. “Civil servants and Conservative advisers would form of speak about her in hushed tones. She was the one who would look into your background to see in the event you may have a job in authorities.”
What do McSweeney and Grey’s backgrounds inform us about what a Labour authorities would appear to be?
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