"Pat McFadden has been on media round duties this morning. He is now work and pensions secreratary, and his interviews (conducted from Selhurst Park) were ostensibly about an announcement about premier league football clubs getting involved in a 25m expansion of the youth hubs programme. In his old job, as chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, McFadden was in effect the minister for the Today programme, the No 10 figure sent out to hose down the media in the face of assorted scandals and problems and there was quite a bit of that going on this morning."
"McFadden replied: The Electoral Commission made a statement on this last night, and they said that they'd looked into all these things some years ago and they really didn't have anything to add to it. Look, I'm not surprised that the Conservatives are trying to, attack someone who was very effective, who was an integral part of Labour's general election campaign last year in delivering the Labour victory. And they don't happen ver"
Pat McFadden conducted media interviews from Selhurst Park while serving as work and pensions secretary, promoting a £25m expansion of the youth hubs programme with premier league club involvement. In his previous role as chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster he handled intensive media duties and crisis responses for No 10. He faced questions about Donald Trump's outburst and Conservative allegations that Morgan McSweeney misled the Electoral Commission over donations. Conservatives published a leaked email suggesting McSweeney was advised not to disclose full reasons for undeclared donations. McFadden expressed confidence in McSweeney and cited the Electoral Commission's prior review as having nothing further to add.
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