One person, each day, to help make sense of the election.
Labour’s campaign coordinator doesn’t give much away in interviews, but if the party wins on Thursday much of the credit will go to McFadden. A long-serving MP and shadow minister, he has built a reputation for being a workhorse as well as one of the more intellectual members of Keir Starmer’s team. Like Morgan McSweeney, McFadden has spent much of the past six weeks locked in an office in Labour’s south London campaign headquarters; unlike his Irish counterpart, McFadden has made occasional forays for interviews, where he has consistently downplayed any suggestion the election is in the bag. But should his dogged persistence pay off, a job at the top table beckons: along with shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves and shadow deputy leader Angela Rayner, McFadden is being lined up as a member of Starmer’s “quad”, a new decision-making core that Labour hopes will make governing more efficient than under its predecessor.
