fwiw I don't think Smeeth is a particularly irritating politician because I think she reports every day to the CIA. It's because she encapsulates brilliantly a politics where you can just shift from BICOM to HnH to Nestle to Sodexo to the Labour Party and it's all fine and matey

Policy Exchange and Index, why not eh, why not

it's about a milieu, precisely the same milieu that produced someone like Owen Smith, where law and politics and charity and lobbying and corporate PR are all mixed together in a smug little world of principle-free self-righteousness, and I fucking hate it. Thank you.

fwiw I also obviously don't think she's a 'spy' and I don't think she's committed 'treason' and I think it's dubious to do so. What I suspect happened is much more like: https://twitter.com/dsquareddigest/status/1314505895435538434