Who did No 10 try to hire to replace Stephen Carter?
Stephen Carter, former chief executive of PR firm Brunswick, famously lasted just eight months in the bunker-like pressure cooker that is 10 Downing Street. Hired at the start of 2008 (as head of communications and strategy) he had gone before the year was out. Instead he was relocated to become, as Lord Carter, “communications minister” in the Lords. Read more
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Kiran Stacey is an FT political correspondent, having joined the lobby in 2011. He started at the FT as a graduate trainee in 2008, working on desks including UK companies and US equity markets before taking over the FT's Energy Source blog.
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