The winds of change are blowing through the corridors of 4 Matthew Parker Street. Having turfed team Truss out of No. 10, it seems that the Sunak ascendancy has now coincided with a clear out in CCHQ. The past fortnight has seen a number of high-profile departures including chief executive Darren Mott, political director Ross Kempsell and party treasurer Malik Karim. Mott’s departure was announced today after 31 years of service to the party, ‘as jointly agreed with the party chairman and Prime Minister.’

It means that there are now some big jobs currently going at CCHQ. The w4MP website lists vacancies for the director of CRD and head of the chairman’s office as the newly-appointed Nadhim Zahawi seeks to make his mark. An unabashed fan of the late, great Mrs Thatcher, Zahawi’s original job advert for the latter position asked for a successful candidate to have ‘an appreciation that the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.’

Sadly, that line has now been removed but let’s hope (for the Tory party’s sake) that the sentiment remains.

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