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European Super League hired former Tory spinner as PR just hours before launch

Revealed: Ex-Number 10 communication chief was hired only on Sunday to run PR strategy for ill-fated ‘comms disaster’ breakaway project

European Super League hired former Tory spinner as PR just hours before launch
Chelsea fans stage a sit-in outside the club's Stamford Bridge stadium to protest the European Super League, 20 April | Guy Bell/Alamy Live News
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A former Conservative spin doctor was hired to handle the European Super League’s PR hours before the much-criticised initiative was launched, openDemocracy has learned.

The breakaway European Super League (ESL) was announced at 11.30pm last Sunday night, in a press statement issued by iNHouse communications, a firm run by Theresa May’s director of communications Katie Perrior.

It has now emerged that iNHouse only started work on the now doomed competition earlier that day.