More light needed on the other side of the political curtains

Katie Telford, chief of staff to the prime minister, arrives at the Procedure and House Affairs Committee ahead of her testimony on election interference on April 14.

Backroom operators. The hands behind the curtain. However you want to describe them, traditional thinking casts political staff in the shadows, with the spotlight reserved for their elected bosses, be they ministers, party leaders, or MPs.

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