Look, please don't interpret the Cain stuff to some grand plan or foresight or Biden or whatever big trend
Number 10 has two major problems:
- a PM who can't take decisions or structure things
- macho egos
Number 10 has two major problems:
- a PM who can't take decisions or structure things
- macho egos
It seems to have all gone like this:
- Number 10 press and comms are a mess
- Johnson likes US system where a spokeperson briefs the press, on the record
- Johnson wants to appoint someone
- Cain wants a lackey, someone suggests Allegra Stratton, and she's a pro. Oddly she wins
- Number 10 press and comms are a mess
- Johnson likes US system where a spokeperson briefs the press, on the record
- Johnson wants to appoint someone
- Cain wants a lackey, someone suggests Allegra Stratton, and she's a pro. Oddly she wins
- Cain wants Stratton to be answerable to him, she refuses
- Johnson doesn't know what to do, tries to shift Cain upwards to a chief of staff position, unaware how much Cain is hated - even by his own fiancé
- backlash is so strong Johnson can't appoint Cain, so he goes instead
- Johnson doesn't know what to do, tries to shift Cain upwards to a chief of staff position, unaware how much Cain is hated - even by his own fiancé
- backlash is so strong Johnson can't appoint Cain, so he goes instead
This might have the effect of making Number 10 slightly less abrasive, slightly less macho, and slightly more professional overall. But it all strikes me it's a product of disfunction, not any sort of plan.
/ends
/ends
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