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An amusing footnote on Simon Lewis's appointment as the new Downing Street Director of Communications.

Lewis served as Director of Communications for the old SDP from 1986-88, a period when his friend and new colleague Peter Mandelson did the very same job for Labour (more precisely, from 1986 to 1990).

And another colleague of theirs, the Northern Ireland Secretary, Shaun Woodward, who plays a big advisory role in Downing Street these days, held the exactly same post for the Conservatives from 1991 to 1992!