The summer transfer window is open and Reform UK is making its fair share of signings. Mr S has already broken the news that Karl Williams of the Centre for Policy Studies will shortly be joining James Orr’s gang of merry men in the policy team. And now it can be revealed that another think-tank wonk is migrating from the Tufton Street swamp over to Milbank Tower. The Marquis of Granby continues to work its magic…

Three months ago Robert Jenrick, the party’s Treasury spokesman, put out an advert looking for a new chief economic adviser. The lucky man who fills that vacancy is Mitchell Palmer of the Adam Smith Institute. A Kiwi, he has served a special advisor to David Seymour, New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister and member of the ACT Party. Palmer helped draft Jenrick’s big Monday speech on overhauling welfare that seems to have gone done well with the public. With conference season in a fortnight’s time and a make-or-break Burham Budget on the horizon, Team Jenners will no doubt be grateful for the extra pair of hands.

Amid a hiring crisis in Britain, good to know there’s one place that’s still hiring eh?