Hutton Bags Himself a Trophy Adviser ; Londoner's Diary

Summary

---

FOLLOWING Tony Blair's reshuffle, newly promoted ministers are now free to appoint their special advisers, and there has been fierce competition to bag John Woodcock, the 26-year-old star of Labour's election attack team.

The young apparatchik, considered the hero of Labour's campaign, has now been hired by John Hutton, the new Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, to work in the Cabinet Office.

See the full content of this document

Extract

---

Hutton Bags Himself a Trophy Adviser ; Londoner's Diary

It was Woodcock who invited himself to a meeting of the Thatcherite Conservative Way Forward group in March, and who, with clever questioning from the floor, taped Tory deputy chairman Howard Flight as he talked of "sieving" the James Review for ...

See the full content of this document

---