MORE turmoil on planet Downing Street after Number 10 staff learned that Gordon Brown’s controversial new fixer, public relations man Stephen Carter, is paid as much as the Prime Minister Mr Carter, principal adviser to Gordie, is on a minimum wage-dwarfing £180,000 a year. Christine Drury, the secretarial assistant brought over with him from Brunswick, benefits from a package worth £70,000, which has discomfited some MPs on their relatively paltry £61,000. Mr Carter’s salary vastly exceeds the civil service maximum of £137,400 and its disclosure comes with the revelation that the taxpayer-funded wage bill for the team burnishing Gordon’s public image has risen by almost  £500,000 since January, to nearly £2 million a year. Maybe he should demand his money back.