Yesterday I happily quoted the Prime Minister without fact-checking him and sure enough, it turns out his numbers were all to hell. It’s not four kg of Royal Commission report, it’s fourteen.
My friend and one-time colleague-in-comms Hazel Phillips gently alerted me to my error almost as soon as I’d hit send and let me just take a moment to say: if you want someone who is almost supernaturally good at comms management, Hazel is who you’re looking for.
She also asked if I’d like a personal perspective about having read hundreds of witness statements. Most definitely I said. Here’s what she wrote, and I could not be more grateful.
