(Barbados Nation) It’s the end of the road for Government’s lead political adviser Hartley Henry.
With the death of Prime Minister David Thompson early last Saturday, Henry on Monday declared: “The kingmaker dies with the king”.
“My tenure ends with David Thompson, so I am not going to work with anyone else,” he said in an exclusive DAILY NATION interview.
Henry, who represented the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) in the 1999 general election in the St George South constituency, losing to the Barbados Labour Party’s Louis (now Sir Louis) Tull by more than 1 000 votes, also dismissed rumours that he has been actively campaigning to be Thompson’s replacement in the constituency of St John. But Henry, who was credited by Thompson for his role in the party’s 2008 victory at the polls, said it was “unlikely” at this stage that he would be in charge of the DLP’s future election strategy.