Pat McFadden – Labour’s great survivor
Tony Blair’s former political secretary has accumulated “extraordinary power” as shadow chief secretary to the Treasury and Rachel Reeves’s deputy.
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Rachel Wearmouth
Rachel Wearmouth joined the New Statesman as deputy political editor in 2022, having previously worked as senior political correspondent at the Daily Mirror and political correspondent at HuffPost UK.
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