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Adviser to [Gordon] Brown jumps ship to Tory front bench
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie Feb 15, 2009 09:03pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Feb 15, 2009 09:00pm |
| Description | GORDON Brown was coming under increasingly severe political pressure last night after the defection of one of his advisers to the Tories and worsening poll results.
It emerged yesterday that Sir David Freud, a key government adviser on welfare reform, has quit to become a front bench spokesman for the Conservatives. Sir David, who was the architect of Labour's plans to shake up the benefit system, will become an economic adviser to Tory leader David Cameron as well as the party's spokesman on welfare in the House of Lords.
It is understood that Mr Cameron and the shadow chancellor, George Osborne, have been speaking regularly to the City financier about welfare and the economy for some time, and over the past month have raised the prospect of a possible peerage. |
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