A good day to bury boring news

When a Labour press release landed in my inbox saying, ‘Ministers must come clean over attempt to bury bad news on strike day,’ I was expecting quite a story. But the reality of it turns out to be rather underwhelming.

Labour’s accusation centers round a shift in direction on charging points for electric cars, not exactly a subject that I would expect to keep the government’s communications director Craig Oliver up at night. Ironically, the Department of Transport did publish a press release on the story yesterday and it even attempted to set up a newspaper interview to trail the announcement but this effort failed as the story wasn’t deemed exciting enough.

Jo Moore, the Labour special adviser to the transport secretary who sent the infamous September 11th 2001 email saying this is a ‘very good day to get out anything we want to bury’ was allegedly trying to lose a story about an increase in payments to councillors.