{"id":188179,"date":"2024-10-08T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/can-special-advisers-be-too-powerful\/"},"modified":"2024-10-08T18:00:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T17:00:51","slug":"can-special-advisers-be-too-powerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/can-special-advisers-be-too-powerful\/","title":{"rendered":"Can special advisers be too powerful?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/pbvmiLEl3PU\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Can special advisers be too powerful?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pbvmiLEl3PU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The departure of Sue Gray, as Sir Keir Starmer&#8217;s most senior adviser in Number 10, has shone a spotlight on the role of special advisers in government.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nSo\u00a0on today\u2019s Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by our deputy political editor Sam Coates to find out exactly what role these\u00a0advisers, often known as SpAds, play in the running of the country.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nNiall also speaks to former Conservative special adviser, and author of The Secret Life of Special Advisers, Peter Cardwell, about what it was like to do\u00a0the job. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Producer: Rosie Gillott\u00a0<br \/>\nEditor: Paul Stanworth\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The departure of Sue Gray, as Sir Keir Starmer&#8217;s most senior adviser in Number 10, has shone a spotlight on the role of special advisers in government.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 So\u00a0on today\u2019s Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by our deputy political editor Sam Coates to find out exactly what role these\u00a0advisers, often known as SpAds, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128811],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-188179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sky-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can special advisers be too powerful? | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Can special advisers be too powerful? for free, here on News ISC. 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