So here’s our question of the day: when reporters leaves their newspapers to work for the people they once covered, are they going through a revolving door – the same kind of door public officials seem to pass through when they trade their elected offices for more lucrative ones in the private sector – or are journalists simply going through a single door that slams shut behind them?
- About the revolving door, PoliticNJ.com, February 26, 2008.
2. The latest jobs update on Acoba’s website notes ex-Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon’s appointment as senior vice-president of AgustaWestland International, the Anglo-Italian helicopter manufacturer, almost two years after leaving government and six years after leaving the Ministry of Defence.
Meanwhile, former First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Jonathan Band moves from leading the Royal Navy to advising US arms giant, Lockheed Martin.
Sir Jonathan was advised to wait six months before taking up the new job.
Both moves were approved by Acoba subject to the now standard warning that they must not lobby ministers or civil servants on behalf of their new employers for a period of two years after leaving office.
Since Acoba’s launch in 1975 there has been a marked increase in the number of ministers and mandarins passing through the so-called “revolving door” between government and the private sector.
Companies keen to win NHS contracts now head-hunt top civil servants from the Department of Health.
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