CCHQ Candidates Department Decimated as Team Takes Voluntary Redundancy

While Tory leadership hopefuls give exalted speeches the central party machine is running on fumes. Guido hears Matt Lane and Gareth Fox, both top-level staff in the Candidates Department, took voluntary redundancy and are out of the door. The same goes for the vast remainder of the team…

The department is naturally responsible for sourcing Tory candidates for election and its representatives get sent to association selection meetings to oversee events.[…] Read the rest