Do you fancy a nice highly paid job?

Do you fancy a £10,000 a day job? Well you are too late, Deborah Mattinson got there first.

"Gordon Brown was embroiled in a "cronyism" row last night over his personal pollster, his controversial citizens' juries and £1.4million in public money.

The central figure is Deborah Mattinson, who ran a company called Opinion Leader Research until Mr Brown became Premier, when she stepped down to work on a retainer for the Labour Party.

But she remained on the management team of Chime Communications, OLR's parent company, and reportedly owns a large number of shares.

Now it has emerged that OLR, which runs focus groups, forums and polls for clients, won more than 90 per cent of the contracts to set up Mr Brown's "ask the people" juries.

These have earned the company £1,393,681 of taxpayers' cash - an average of almost £10,000 a day since Mr Brown came to power in June.

This was a dramatic increase on the rate over the previous ten years, even though OLR won Whitehall contracts worth at least £3million over that period."