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Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots, the Spectators Daily Politics

Podcast.

I'm Cindy you and I'm joined by James Hill and Isabel Hardman.

So this week it's been announced that Labour will be appointing somewhat of a political appointee to an ethics role in the cabinet office as a civil servant.

As well, tell us about the latest appointment we've had.

So this is Jess Sergeant who was director of constitutional change at Labor Together, which if you've been under a rock for the past

year, it's probably one of the most important think tanks connected to the Labour Party.

It's Morgan McSweeny's operation.

It's really where the, I suppose,

the renovation of the Labour Party under Kirstamo was designed.

So she's been there, she has been quietly appointed Deputy Director of the Cabinet Office's Propriety and Constitution group.

I don't know what constitutes quietly, is that just because she hasn't written a post that

starts with I'm delighted to announce on Twitter or what but anyway she's got this job and

the Tories are arguing that this is another example of cronyism that she's a political appointee she shouldn't be working on

on the sort of the ethics questions that might come across her desk in that area now

laborer saying that she won't be working on

ethics or ministerial investigations, so it's not going to be a case of the party appointing

someone to you a government job who will then be marking its homework.

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