Thursday 15 October 2009

George Pascoe-Watson to join Portland

October 15, 2009 6:21pmby Jim Pickard 

Political Editor of the Sun heading to the more dollar-esque pastures of Portland Public Relations. You may remember a few weeks ago that we revealed the company had hired Michael Portillo - in a vivid sign of the PR industry wanting to snap up Tories.

Of course we wouldn’t dare to suggest that GPW had Conservative tendencies; but the Sun did rise on Cameron in the middle of Labour party conference.

We are running a sweepstake on GPW’s replacement:

David Hencke (formerly of the Guardian) 100:1

Damian McBride (former spin-meister) 10:1

Ben Bradshaw (culture secretary, ex BBC) 5:1

Alastair Campbell (ex Mirror hardman) 1:2

UPDATE

Some confusion out there…this is not a serious list of candidates…