Lessons from No 10: When government comms go badly wrong | Lee Cain
“It's a comms problem” is the diagnosis politicians, pundits and the public often reach for whenever a prime minister flounders. It was arguably Keir Starmer’s biggest undoing. From the beginning, he failed to articulate what kind of prime minister he would be. In the end, nobody really knew what he thought about anything. For today’s guest Lee Cain, Starmer was a “political vacuum” - but believes his successor Andy Burnham is ripe with rhetorical promise.
Cain was director of communications in No 10 under Boris Johnson at the height of the Covid pandemic, and before that was a newspaper…
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