Tom Watson Uncut

When the Labour Uncut (@labouruncut) blog emerged from dust clouds of the party’s election defeat it was clear that the team behind it had the inside track in the Westminster village. Despite its unassuming launch, the site – with no introductory post, “about page” or list of contributors – seemed to have an immediate purchase within the lobby. It thus came as no surprise that the scheme was the progeny of  former minister Siôn Simon.

Handing over control to Tom Watson, the doyen of blogging MPs, for seven days the Uncut team write:

“Uncut will not be safe in his hands. But the management team has made a judgment that he is unlikely to break it in a week. To the limited extent that it is possible to do them simultaneously: pay attention, and run for cover.”

Readers can expect discussion of the challenges for Labour’s next leader mixed in with the agitation on digital policy familiar to readers of his blog.

Scrapbook sincerely hopes Tom has held over some of his FOI muckraking for publication this week.