Talk about making an entrance. No more than 24 hours into his job as No 10’s new comms chief and Guto Harri was already rivalling his new boss with tongue-in-cheek quips.
In his short tenure as the PM’s latest spin doctor, the extroverted Welshman has already described Boris Johnson as “not a total clown”, revealed that Johnson welcomed him into the job with a rendition of Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive, and announced with a cheeky grin that he was carrying “bottles of mineral water” into Downing Street for staff - a nod to the recent partygate allegations.
