Jade Botterill’s employment history raises questions about her campaign claims and ‘about’ section
Jade Botterill, Keir Starmer’s candidate for the new Ossett and Denby Dale seat, has claimed in her ‘about me’ campaign page that,
Unlike many in politics… I haven’t spent a lot of time in the Halls of Westminster.
However, her Linkedin page reveals that she spent six years in Westminster – first as a parliamentary assistant to the Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee (from 2016 Yvette Cooper) and then directly for Cooper as her parliamentary head of office:
Her ‘about me’ section also mentioned, according to The Daily Politik, that she worked in PR for petitions site ’38 Degrees’ for about 18 months – the mention now appears to have been removed. However, it makes no mention of her working as a spin doctor for Yorkshire Water, one of the worst sewage polluters of Britain’s waterways:
Instead Ms Bottrill claims, without mentioning her time with Yorkshire Water, that she now spends her working hours ‘holding water companies to account when they pollute our rivers and seas’:
Now, in my professional life, I work to support vital local and national campaigns, like holding water companies to account when they pollute our rivers and seas… These are all key issues facing us across Ossett and Denby Dale.
Ms Bottrill claims she represents ‘change’ and is unlike the usual Starmeroid/Blairite drones who get their selections after working for other Blairite MPs. Her employment history raises serious questions.
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