Dr Katherine Rake - New Labour mouthpiece.

The rewards of champagne socialism....Dr Katherine Rake been chosen as the Government's new chief spokesman on families.

She will head the Family and Parenting Institute, a heavily state-financed organisation set up by Labour to speak for parents and children.

Dr Rake is currently director of the women's equality campaign group the Fawcett Society. Another bunch of state funded non jobs.

The Family and Parenting Institute an organisation that was set up in 1999 by then Home Secretary Jack Straw to shore up family life and encourage parents.

So she moves from one government non job to another. Dr Rake is likely to earn £60,000 a year.

New Labour rewarding its own, praising non jobs to the skies and passing down the rewards to card carrying champagne socialists.

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