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There have been wider concerns about the inexperience of some so-called "spads" - special advisers to ministers who specialise in media or policy development.
The Guardian World News Polly Curtis 2011
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• When Labour's special advisers spads met for a reunion in the shadow of Big Ben, they knew it would be eventful.
Hugh Muir's diary 2012
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Sue Nye, famed gatekeeper for Gordon Brown, was nice, defending spads as an unfairly derided breed.
Hugh Muir's diary 2012
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No one is running the country, our masters are being rehearsed and roleplayed by spads and spin doctors 24/7.
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No one is running the country, our masters are being rehearsed and roleplayed by spads and spin doctors 24/7.
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Another crowd-pleasing mistake the Tories made in opposition was to promise to cut Labour's record number of political appointees, the special advisers (spads) there to troubleshoot, covering their ministers 'backs in places where neutral civil servants cannot stray.
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All the young labour politicos, spads and wannabe-spads I know are obsessed with the West Wing.
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All the young labour politicos, spads and wannabe-spads I know are obsessed with the West Wing.
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Blair , hand on heart I did what I thought was right ,with all his advisors and spads and civil servants, why is he saying I thought was right ,he's guessing and we pay him for guessing.
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So in effect, you have 3 spads making up 2 FTE positions.
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He rarely bothers to explain who’s who in his cast list of spads (government special advisers), physicists and tech gurus.
Intoxicating, insidery and infuriating: everything I learned about Dominic Cummings from his £10-a-month blog David Runciman 2022
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