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Westminster News from Paul Waugh
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News, gossip and insight from PoliticsHome Editor Paul Waugh
Friday 24th February 2012 | 09:09
Maurice's SunSpot
Maurice Glasman has reportedly turned down the tempting offer of £1,000 a week to write a column for the Sun on Sunday.
The Blue Labour 'guru' may not have exactly been a gripping read for a tabloid audience - as Patrick Wintour beautifully tweeted* - but he certainly wants to get Labour back in tune with working class voters.
Anyway, I've now heard a nice story which could explain just why Glasman was approached in the first place. And even if he wasn't tapped up by the paper, it could also explain why the rumours of a Sun column may have started.
The bespectacled peer was overheard recently joking: "We need to move beyond the squeezed middle. I am thinking of writing something on the squeezed bottom. Probably for the Sun!"
Ah, how politics works...
*FOOTNOTE: "Glasman 1st col on "Historical continuity,democracy,the necessity of extemporised action rendering politics contingent" has been spiked."
UPDATE: I'm glad I only said 'reportedly' turned down. My snout within News International tells me no money was offered or sought for the column.
More importantly, Glasman was not ever offered a permanent column but instead was lined up to write a single article for the launch issue, sources say. This was fuelled by his desire to reconnect with Sun readers, particularly given that the paper's readers had a Labour to Tory swing of 17% at the last election - higher than any other paper.
Glasman did actually file an article and all was fine and dandy until Sun critics piled in and Ed Miliband decided it would not be a good idea.
As for the gag above, I understand that the 'squeezed bottom' line was actually in his (now spiked) debut article.
I also hear that Glasman may still write for the paper at some later date.
When asked whether David Cameron would be endorsing the new paper and the jobs it will help create, his official spokesman joked this morning: "I don't think that's something for us to do....I certainly don't do endorsements of newspapers."
November 2010
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