Things are looking up for the Labour party. They’re twenty points ahead in the polls, the Tories are squabbling over planning reform and just last week Keir Starmer won Politician of the Year at the annual Spectator Parliamentarian Awards. Still – as anyone within the Leader’s Office will tell you – they’re keen to avoid even in the merest hint of complacency.
It was in that spirit that Sir Keir overhauled his top team last month, axing his chief of staff, Sam White, and claiming that Labour is now on an election footing. He told (surviving) party staff on a call that ‘We are turning the page to the final act of opposition: driving the Labour party into government.’ And it’s to further that end that the party is now hiring a new chief of staff to lead the Starmer Army to victory in 2024.
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