A former senior Labour staffer who bragged about trying to “bring Corbyn down” before quitting to help set up Change UK is now working as a spin doctor for the Tories’ Rwanda-UK asylum deal, openDemocracy can reveal.
Harry Burns, then named Harry Gregson, was Labour’s acting regional director for the south-east in 2016, going on to head up its election campaign and support team the following year, according to his LinkedIn profile.
After the party did better than expected in the polls, Burns said he quit because “it became clear that Corbyn was getting close to government”.
