Ex-Living Marxism & Boris Johnson’s policy chief Munira Mirza heads new ‘Fix It’ think tank
Munira Mirza worked for Boris Johnson since his days as London Mayor in 2008. In 2010 her salary as arts advisor to Johnson was £127,874 (Sonia Purnell Just Boris). At No.10 she was paid £145,000 a year. Her main role seems to have been to promote Culture Wars, something the current Tory leader is also keen on. She resigned from No.10 in 2022.
Ms Mirza, wrote for Living Marxism in the 1990s and was associated with the small Revolutionary Communist Party (not to be confused with the then CPGB or the CPB now)
She is now heading up a new think tank ‘Fix It’ and can be found promoting it in the Times (26th June). She claims Fix It is ‘non party’ and is recruiting ‘successful people from outside Government’
The aims of ‘Fix It’ amount mostly to right-wing waffle aside from one of Ms Mirza’s favourite subjects, sacking ‘poor performers’ in Whitehall more quickly. She also thinks that prisons and housing should be built more quickly, although doesn’t say how.
There is an Advisory Board and while Mirza mentions no names Steerpike in the Spectator has provided a few. They include:
Lord Glasman of Blue Labour
Douglas Murray, the UK’s leading Islamophobe
Liam Halligan, former Business Editor of GB News
James Benjamin, a pollster who has worked a lot with the Tories
Jon Benjamin most recently UK Ambassador to Mexico who departed (FT) after an incident with a gun.
What could possibly go wrong..
… or the current RCP!