Johnson`s new staff will make no difference

Katy Balls tells us that a "less combative era with more parliamentary outreach" is about to begin in Downing Street, largely because of the departure of "Vote leave aides" and the arrival of a new chief of staff, Dan Rosenfeld, and a new "press spokesperson", Allegra Stratton, a pair whom no one could call "rightwing headbangers" (Johnson`s big risk in 2021? Having no one left to blame,30/12/20). Many will disagree. Didn`t Rosenfeld say in an interview that he really enjoyed working for George Osborne, whom he thought "cared deeply about making a difference"? Millions of UK citizens certainly knew all about the difference Osborne made to their lives and prospects with his unnecessary and callous austerity policies! Stratton`s right to "rightwing headbanger" status does not rely simply on the disgraceful and biased interview with a single mother on Newsnight in May, 2012, which left the interviewee claiming to have been "humiliated". Anyone willing to act as the spokesperson for a prime minister who is not only using a national crisis to increase his personal power at the expense of parliament, but who is willing to tell untruths at the drop of a hat, disappear from public view when the going gets tough, and make outrageous claims about the country being "world-beating" when it is anything but, has either to be as unprincipled as her boss, or headbangingly rightwing!