The staff member in Keir Starmer’s office joined Starmer’s team in the summer and is listed as an associate director of Grant Thornton, a consultancy firm, where he is selling his knowledge of “politics, government and public policy issues” to corporate clients. The arrangement does not breach any regulations because Labour is not in power, though equivalent roles advising government ministers come with an obligation that holders must not “misuse your official position, for example by using information acquired in the course of your official duties to further your private interests or those of others”.
don’t worry. the tories will get rid of inheritance tax, ban low traffic neighbourhoods and push back the ban on new diesel and petrol cars, then ride a wave of public support to another landslide election next year.
Polling is showing that this is not what the public want. The Tories are pushing it, but I think the success rate is very much more limited.