Downing Street to directly recruit special advisers for media roles

No 10 shakes up hiring process for media and digital staff with launch of Spad Jobs websiteBoris Johnson’s government is tightening its grip on the recruitment of special advisers, centralising the selection of those who speak to the media and have digital roles.The shake-up of hiring of the advisers, known in Whitehall as Spads, comes after the chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, personally advertised for “misfits and weirdos” to join the policy arm of the civil service on his bl