No 10 shakes up hiring process for media and digital staff with launch of Spad Jobs website
Boris Johnson’s government is tightening its grip on the recruitment of special advisers, centralising the selection of those who speak to the media and have digital roles.
The shake-up of hiring of the advisers, known in Whitehall as Spads, comes after the chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, personally advertised for “misfits and weirdos” to join the policy arm of the civil service on his blog in January.