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Former No 10 adviser finds there’s money where his mouth is
Jimmy McLoughlin, an adviser to Theresa May when she was prime minister, now has more than a hundred episodes of his podcast Jobs of the Future under his belt
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“There’s something about asking clever people really simple questions that can be very enlightening,” Jimmy McLoughlin, a former government adviser, said of the perks of hosting his weekly business podcast Jobs of the Future.
“When we asked the then chancellor of the exchequer, Rishi Sunak, to define what his role is he split it into two: the fiscal, technical, finance side and driving economic growth and living standards. Even though I’ve been in politics myself for 15 years it made me look at it in an entirely new way.”
It seems that much of the move from politics to podcasting has been an education for McLoughlin but, more than a hundred episodes and a six-figure turnover later, one that has paid off. Having advised
