Stop talking to PR Week

After this report of PR Week's latest from Thursday Stephen Carter's people in Downing Street have been told to stop talking to the advertising world magazine, according to this morning's Guardian.

Brown has been told that people within Carter's team have been talking freely to contacts on PR magazines, and Downing Street has demanded that the chatter stops. A senior Labour MP said: "It is time these recruits from the PR world learned that success in government is not measured by how many times you appear in PR Week."

It isn't possible to say from this though if "Downing Street" demanding that Carter's allies keep schtum means that Brown himself has said it. Apparently it isn't Carter himself doing the briefing, others in Downing Street have concluded.

Comments

[Chuck Unsworth]

Hilarious!

Which Labour MP would have the slightest understanding of 'success in government"?

What would be the definition of 'success'?

Still, it's interesting that the Kremlin has clamped down on everything. Not exactly the manifestation of a confident open government, is it?

And the fact that it's been necessary to issue this edict is a clear indication of where individual loyalties lie.