Sir Stuart sends late-night texts to Nick Hurd 3

Governance | 6 Jul 2011

The minister for civil society revealed last night that he receives policy advice from NCVO chief executive Sir Stuart Etherington in the form of “midnight text messages”.

Addressing a crowd of sector leaders at the annual summer reception hosted by NCVO and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Civil Society and Volunteering at the Houses of Parliament, Nick Hurd MP said he thought the relationship between the coalition government and the sector was one of “constructive engagement”.

He went on to highlight NCVO’s important role in this engagement and disclosed that “advice from Sir Stuart tends to come in the form of midnight text messages, much to the bewilderment of the new Mrs Hurd”.

He said it became increasingly difficult to convince her that the person at the other end of the phone was the NCVO’s chief executive, adding, to much hilarity: “I’m sure she thought I was having an affair.”

But harmony has now resumed in the Hurd household, since the minister and Sir Stuart have had a “cooling-off period”.

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Rarry Revan
Ranter
Rantingrules
7 Jul 2011

Maybe it was more like "Don't forget to wear the tight trousers, will distract the audience from the drivel coming out of your mouth"

kisses,

Rarry

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Sir Robin Bogg
CEO
BUBB
6 Jul 2011

Text messages at midnight? The man is an amateur. I have camped outside of the minister's house before to ensure I can give him some earache about something or other as soon as he leaves in the morning. Why, I have even disguised myself as a packet of All Bran so as to be at breakfast with him. Which worked OK until he poured milk on my Duchamp tie.

Sir Robin

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Jay Kennedy
6 Jul 2011

Do we need to coin a new term, 'plexting'? (groan)

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