There seems to a bit of a problem with emails over in the Shadow Treasury team. Despite sitting at adjacent desks an email between Osborne's Rohan Silva, Rupert Harrison and Matt Hancock has made it onto the C4 news. How could it happen? Well my guess is the Parliamentry email system, did the happless Hancock, Harrison or Silva pick the wrong the wrong name from the adress book and send it to the enemy? If so having had a look at the names in the adress book and using some lateral thinking I have narrowed the ememy down to either the office of Gerrry Sutcliffe MP or Meg Mun MP. This seems to be a bit of a habit in the Osborne team (having inadvertntly leeked the Tory's Crossrail plans last year) but keep it up - I thought the email was quite a sensible appraisal of the spending commitment war.
From: HANCOCK, MatthewSent: 25 February 2007 09:45:35
To: OSBORNE, George; Rohan Silva; HANCOCK, Matthew; HARRISON, Rupert; SILVA, RohanSubject:
To: OSBORNE, George; Rohan Silva; HANCOCK, Matthew; HARRISON, Rupert; SILVA, RohanSubject:
Re: Labour in opposition - controlling spending commitments
I've seen that Tory document, and we were even more ruthless than they are at finding anything that could be taken as a spending commitment.At least we do have a system of sorts - which we are improving. The key is that it didn't fly much as a subject because Brown was seen to be in control of spending. They will always be able to put together a dodgy dossier of "commitments" - which will include all sorts of things like housing. And I doubt they will stop including it in their briefing to broadcasters when George is on. We need to be in a position to rebut.M
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