TL:DR Leaving Government is hard, whatever the circumstances, you’ll feel you have unfinished business, but take a proper break and try and recalibrate your thoughts. I ended up doing a podcast on jobs of the future, something I would never have imagined. Nb. …

The TL: DR the podcast I launched as a lockdown project to help tackle the surge of unemployment is growing at a rapid pace and therefore we are hiring. …

This post is a summary of what I have been up to since leaving №10 a year ago, how I am now going to try and help with the employment challenge coming up and a call to action for how you can help. When I left Downing Street a year…

I wrote a piece in February about the options available to people when they left Government, leaning on my experience of when I was in10 Downing Street and the advice I gave to people. I had lots of former SpAds, and even some Cabinet Ministers get in touch to say…

Finding out you are losing your job via Twitter is horrendous, ironically on most occasions it would lead to a social media outcry, but for Special Advisers (SpAds) in UK politics, it’s the grim reality. Your boss has been called to see the Prime Minister, you know it probably is…

On Monday I will visit Wembley for the fourth time as a Derby County fan, every time I’ve gone it was conjures up a different set of emotions of excitement and raw nervousness, always thinking could this season be our season?. All Derby fans if they are honest, will have…