For a man who wrote a seminal book on the shadowy nature of public relations entitled The Death of Spin, there is something rather ironic about the fact that George Pitcher \u201d\u201c the Archbishop of Canterbury’s public affairs secretary \u201d\u201c has been dismissed for what appears to have been a spin too far.<\/p>\n
Mr Pitcher, a former industrial correspondent turned Anglican priest who styles himself as the vicar of Fleet Street, is to leave his post as Rowan Williams’ chief spin doctor after just nine months in the job.<\/p>\n
The official reason given by Lambeth Palace is the termination of what was only ever a year-long contract. But sources within the Church of England and Westminster say Mr Pitcher’s departure was the endgame of a political fallout that began with Archbishop Williams’ damning critique of the Government’s cuts and ended with an offhand joke about canap\u00c3\u00a9s<\/p>\n