Labour Quadruples Use of Consultants After Criticising Use of Consultants

The FT has dug into the numbers this morning and found that, despite Labour squawking about government use of consultants and promising “tough new rules” to restrict it, the party has massively increased its own work with companies. Labour got £287,000 in donations of staff time from consultancies in the year to September 2023, which is up four times from only £72,000 in 12 months before.[…] Read the rest