UKC

Allegra Stratton new jobs involves defending this Government.

Previously at the Guardian,Newsnight and ITN.

What motivates her and why would you nail your colours to Johnston's Government?

Ideology

Money

Power

Never registered with me before. Reading her Wiki entry is revealing for me

"Stratton is married to James Forsyth, political editor of The Spectator magazine.[21] The couple have two children and live in Canonbury, North London.[22][23] Future Chancellor Rishi Sunak was best man at their wedding in 2011,[1] and they and Sunak are godparents to each other's children.[24]

In November 2020, Stratton told The Sunday Telegraph that despite voting for the Labour Party, the Green Party and the Liberal Democrats in the past, she voted for Brexit and describes herself as "a Johnson Tory".[25]"

I'm going to guess it's a while since she voted Labour or Green.

I completely take your point about the incestuous nature of the political/media/financial infrastructure but it’s hardly a conspiracy scandal that a conservative prime minister should have a spokesperson who is a conservative and a supporter of the prime minister, is it?

If I were hiring such a person (difficult to imagine, I know) I think I’d choose someone who I thought largely agreed with me.

Lee Cain left the day after she was appointed.

However..he was linked to Dominic Cumming's departure.

I find it intriguing she was a Political Commentator who covered all the parties,knew the people on the inside and has decided to promote Johnston...who has also purged the Conservatives of opposite 'thinkers'.

I think my dad used to drive an Allegra Stratton.

Wonder if she has a square steering wheel?

I was thinking how you would get this into a question,if you were a journalist at one of her briefings...🤣

I was interested in this when it was first announced, but since then I haven't actually seen her. Has the job changed from when it was first announced (at the time it seemed she would be the front for No.10, which she hasn't been at all) - or has she simply not properly started yet?

Just call her Austin...

I think its mostly at the daily press conferences which arent normally televised and even then generally its a civil servant who does it unless there is a party political question at which point she has to take over.

They've spent some money on a media room,but haven't decided the format.

She's been giving briefings but is now self isolating for a week.

I think the likes of Peter Bone are unhappy at the prospect of policy, potentially being announced direct to the Country without the debate in the Commons.

I wonder if she was conceived in one? Probably broken down at the time.

Embarrassingly she went to my old school.

A neutral comment in our recent alumni  magazine.

Thanks..

I wasn't suggesting a conspiracy; I was simply pointing out her obvious political connections and leanings. Which addresses the OP's question as to her motivation.

If she starts with "I'll never lie to you..." give up all hope.