Jason Stein reportedly advised Prince Andrew not to go ahead with the calamitous Newsnight interview, quitting his role as the prince’s communications secretary two weeks before the interview (having only been in the post a few weeks). As a sage PR adviser once told Spear’s, ‘You can only work with what you’ve got.’
Stein, 28, shone as Amber Rudd’s special adviser and developed a reputation at Westminster as what the Daily Mail called a ‘master of the dark arts’. He lost his job with Rudd when she resigned from the cabinet in September. In November, Stein joined Finsbury, the firm founded by Amber Rudd’s brother Roland Rudd, as a director