John Hayes Parliamentary Private Senior Parliamentary Adviser Secretary

Samantha Cameron Isabel Spearman Special Adviser

Edward Llewellyn Catherine Fall Ramsay Jones Andrew Dunlop Chief of Staff Deputy Chief of Staff Deputy Chief of staff Special Adviser on Special Adviser on Scotland

Lynton Crosby Alex Dawson Director of the Conservative Research Department

Andrew Cooper Ameet Gill Director of Strategy Head of Strategic communications

Stephen Gilbert Adam Atashzia Political Secretary Political Adviser

Chris Lockwood Tara Singh Daniel Korski Deputy Head of the Policy Adviser: Energy Policy Adviser: Health Policy Adviser: Policy Unit and Environment Technology

Patrick Rock Tim Luke Deputy Head of the Special Adviser: Education Policy Adviser: Business Head of the Policy Unit Policy Unit and Enterprise

Nick Gibb MP Paul Uppal MP MP MP Home, justice and constitutional Public services: health, Local government Foreign Affairs affairs, DCMS issues education and transport

Jesse Norman MP Jane Ellison MP Margot James MP Treasury, BIS and DWP Public services: Health Treasury, BIS and DWP issues issues

Jean Christophe Gray Christian Cubitt Prime Minister’s Deputy Spokesperson Spokesperson Craig Oliver Director of Claire Foges Michael Salter Liz Sugg Susie Squire Alan Sendorek Communications Speechwriter Political Head of Head of Operations Head of Press Head of Political Press Broadcasting PRIME MINISTER’S SENIOR TEAM Oliver Dowden Ramsay Jones Rt Hon MP John Hayes MP Deputy Chief of Staff Special Adviser on Scotland Prime Minister, First Lord of Senior Parliamentary the Treasury and Minister Adviser for the Civil Service Former political adviser at the Jones was appointed by the Prime Minister’s office, Prime Minister in 2012 to work Dowden famously admitted on with Andrew Dunlop on the A right-wing trade unionist an American TV show last Scottish independence minister of working-class year that most of his time in referendum. Former director origins and socially-conservative views who has No 10 was spent “on day-to-day crisis of media at the Scottish Conservatives, Ramsay served under two Liberal Democrat secretaries of management”. was suspended in 2011 pending an investigation state. John Hayes transferred to the Department into whether he improperly helped one of the of Energy and Climate Change in 2012 after two candidates in the Party's leadership race. years as Minister of State for Further Education, He studied law at Cambridge and joined the Conservative research department in 2004; to Samantha Cameron Skills and Lifelong Learning. then leave the Tories in 2007 to work for the PR Email: [email protected] Prime Minister’s wife However, due to his campaigns against wind company Hill & Knowlton. farms in his own constituency, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate, stripped Dowden returned to the Party to work alongside him of the responsibility for renewable energy in early 2009. Andrew Dunlop policy. Six months later, he was moved out of the Special Adviser on Scotland department to become Minister without Portfolio Email: [email protected] at the , charged with advising the Prime Minister on relations with the Parliamentary A former CCHQ-staffer and Party. lobbyist, Dunlop was appointed in 2012 to lead on the government’s strategy to Email: hayesj@.uk defeat the Scottish Edward Llewellyn Catherine Fall independence referendum. Sam Gyimah MP Chief of Staff Deputy Chief of Staff Parliamentary Private Email: [email protected] Secretary Edward Llewellyn attended Kate Fall has been described Constituency: East Surrey, at the same time South East as the “gatekeeper” to David Isabel Spearman as David Cameron. Cameron, whom she met at Majority: 16,874 Special Adviser Oxford University. Fall After leaving Oxford he was previously worked as a employed as an aide to and then to Conservative researcher, and helped run Spearman was a senior PR Gyimah, a former investment banker of Ghanaian the former Liberal Democrat leader, now Lord Cameron’s campaign to win his Witney seat in executive for handbag decent, sits in on cabinet meetings and sees Ashdown of Norton-Sub-Hamdon, in his role as a 2001. designer Anya Hindmarsh. himself as having two bosses, the Prime Minister High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is described as and the Parliamentary Party. “ruthlessly organised”. Fall also became a director of the The Spearman, is Samantha Cameron’s personal Llewellyn had been chief of staff for David Atlantic Partnership. She became Cameron's assistant and responsible for everything from Gyimah, who was president of the Cameron since 2005, and was part of the private office secretary after he was elected to style advice and packing to diary management. in 1997, previously worked at Conservative negotiating team leading up to the replace as the leader of the before setting up various companies. He also coalition agreement. Conservative Party. previously chaired the where he Email: [email protected] published From the Ashes, a collection of essays about the future of the Conservative Party after Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] the 2005 election defeat.

Email: [email protected] POLITICAL AND STRATEGY Lynton Crosby Andrew Cooper Stephen Gilbert

Former campaign director of Director of Strategy Political Secretary 's two successful mayoral bids, Director of strategy in As Cameron's political Lynton Crosby joined David Downing Street, Andrew secretary, Gilbert provides the Cameron's team in January Cooper, founded the polling Prime Minister with deep 2013 to mastermind the 2015 company Populus in 2003. An connections in the Party. general election. Crosby's ultra-moderniser, Cooper has Having worked in CCHQ consultancy, Crosby Textor, will run the been pressing the Conservative Party to ditch its before leaving to work for Lord Ashcroft as a campaign. He is famed for his use of 'wedge' 'nasty party' image since an essay published in political adviser, Gilbert ran the target seat politics to divide opponents; a strategy many 2001, Blue Tomorrow, New Visions for Modern operation during the 2010 general election. have suggested will lead to a renewed focus on Conservatives. immigration and welfare. Email: [email protected] The Prime Minister has been heavily reliant on There have recently been questions asked over Cooper's guidance and polling but it has been Crosby's connections to alcohol and tobacco reported that, due to tensions between Cooper firms amid allegations he influenced the Prime and Crosby, he is likely to head back to Populus Minister's decision to drop plain packaging and before the 2015 election. minimum pricing legislation. Email: [email protected]

Alex Dawson Ameet Gill Adam Atashzia

Director of the Conservative Head of Strategic Political Adviser Research Department Communications The former lawyer and staffer, Dawson is another special Operating as Head of who also worked for Ken adviser with a history in the Strategic Communications Clarke. Adam Atashzia Conservative Party, having following the departure of Tim moved on to George worked in the Party’s research Chatwin in 2011, Ameet Gill Osborne’s shadow Treasury department and at Number 10. He is currently the was Cameron's speech writer and has been team, and is considered to be well regarded by director of the Conservative Research working with the Prime Minister for seven years. the Chancellor. Atashzia replaced Oliver Dowden Department working on shaping the Conservative Before working for Cameron, Gill was a as Cameron’s political adviser when Dowden was Party’s messaging up to the general election. researcher for Conservative historian Niall promoted in 2012. Fergusson. Email: [email protected] Gill’s role is to ensure coherent government announcements and command the strategic grid.

Email: [email protected] POLICY UNIT Patrick Rock Daniel Korski Nick Seddon Jo Johnson MP Deputy Head of the Policy Policy Adviser: Technology Policy Adviser: Health Head of the Policy Unit Unit Before joining Cameron's Previous director-general of Destined to be known as Described as Cameron’s policy team as technology the Reform think-tank and Boris’s younger brother, “policy fixer”, Rock supports adviser, Korski was well head of public affairs at Circle Johnson brought off an Chris Lockwood as the known on the foreign affairs Health, Seddon will take on electoral coup in his own right second deputy head of the circuit. In 2007, he was head responsibility for health and in 2010. Policy Unit. of the provisional reconstruction team in Basra social care policy. Seddon has come under having previously worked for Lord Ashdown when recent controversy for advocating charging With David Cameron determined to keep at least Rock was a Central Office employee in the he was a High Representative in Bosnia. patients for services and deeper NHS cuts. one Johnson on side, he was made 1990's, and his relationship with Cameron dates Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then back to when they worked together as special His connection with Cameron, through Ed Email: [email protected] Minister for Business and Enterprise Mark Prisk advisers to Michael Howard in the Home Office. Llewellyn, started in Bosnia when they both in 2011, and nine months later became an Rock is credited for coining the phrase "cows worked for Ashdown. More recently, Korski was Assistant Government . moo, dogs bark, Labour puts up taxes" and, it has an adviser to MP and Baroness been reported, he is due to be ennobled in the Ashton of Upholland. In April 2013, Cameron appointed him as a next round of peerages. Minister at the Cabinet Office and Head of the Email: [email protected] Downing Street Policy Unit in a move to improve Email: [email protected] communications with a somewhat bruised and disaffected Parliamentary Party.

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Chris Lockwood Laura Trott Tara Singh Tim Luke Deputy Head of the Policy Special Adviser: Education Policy Adviser: Energy and Policy Adviser: Business Unit Environment and Enterprise Previously chief of staff to Lockwood, US editor of The Cabinet Office minister A former public affairs An old Etonian who was at Economist and former Daily , Trott was manager for Centrica, Singh school with Cameron, Luke Telegraph correspondent was made the Prime Minister’s joined the Number 10 policy remains as business and announced as a member of Special Adviser on women in unit in May, replacing ex-BP enterprise adviser in the new the Prime Minister's Policy Unit in April and will February 2012, to help the Conservatives combat man Ben Moxham, who has moved to the Downing Street policy unit operation. Having join as the second deputy head. He was listed as their poor polling among the female demographic. Cabinet Office. worked as a top equities analyst at Lehman one of Cameron's personal friends in evidence Brothers and Capital, he is well given to the Leveson Inquiry and has been on She has now moved into the Policy Unit, leading Singh will provide guidance on energy and connected with CEOs and managements of the holidays with Cameron and his family. on education policy. Trott is also a councillor on environmental policy. She set up Policy world's largest technology companies. Hampstead and Kilburn Council. Exchange’s Energy and Environment Unit, Email: [email protected] reporting to then director Anthony Browne. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] She was also head of environment in the Conservative Research Department from 2005 to late 2007, working under and then , as well as advising other senior Conservatives.

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Nick Gibb MP Margot James MP MP Peter Lilley MP Home, justice and Treasury, BIS and DWP Treasury, BIS and DWP Foreign Affairs constitutional affairs, DCMS issues issues issues A former cabinet minister, as a A public relations Once tipped to be in the Secretary of State for Trade Former minister for schools, entrepreneur, James set up Cabinet within three years of and Industry and Social Nick Gibb was promoted from the largest healthcare PR his election, Jesse Norman is Security under , the shadow cabinet in 2010 following the election. company in Europe; Shire Health Group. a high-flying Etonian, former Barclay’s banker, and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lilley philosopher, think-tanker and former adviser to was a high flyer until his career came to an end in Gibb backed Peter Lilley over in Formally the chairman of the School of . 1999 with a speech challenging the value of the the 1997 leadership contest. He is a strident Economics’ , researcher free market in improving public services. opponent to the single currency but once penned for Tony Durant MP and press officer at One of those expected to be promoted in a future an article in calling on the Party to Conservative central office, James left the party reshuffle; he infuriated David Cameron as one of He is a committed Eurosceptic and a vocal “actually develop policies for running public in 1990 in protest against the ousting of Thatcher. the ringleaders of the revolt. climate change sceptic. One of only three MPs to services within the state sector”. vote against the Climate Change Act 1998, he is She has campaigned on healthcare and declared He was elected to the Treasury Select a senior non-executive director of Tethys Email: [email protected] her priority as fighting NHS cuts in her Committee, and chairs the All-Party Group on Petroleum Ltd, an oil and gas company with constituency. James authored Winning again – Employee Share Ownership. He also chairs the operations in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and what the Conservatives can learn from business, Conservative co-operative movement, saying Uzbekistan. analysing the 2001 and 2005 elections and has there is no reason why co-operatives should be a strong views on law and order. left-wing idea. Email: [email protected]

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Jake Berry MP Paul Uppal MP Jane Ellison MP MP Local government Public services: health, Public services: Health and Energy and Environmment education and transport transport A young solicitor from David Cameron’s former press , Jake Berry The Conservative’s first Sikh A former manager with the secretary, a former candidate unseated the controversial MP, Uppal narrowly won John Lewis Partnership, Jane for the UK Independence Party Labour MP in ’s old seat of Ellison was knowingly and veteran anti-Europe 2010 after eighteen years with a swing of nearly 9 Wolverhampton South West in 2010. Currently undersold by her party in four hopeless contests campaigner, George Eustice captured per cent. Specialising in commercial property, ’ PPS, Uppal was a self-made before finally landing a winnable seat. Cambourne and Redruth by a whisker in 2010. social housing and private finance initiatives, business man in commercial property. there was a logic to his first promotion as A regular speaker and voter, she voted against In 2009 Eustice joined Portland Communications, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then He chairs the APPG on urban development, her colleague Philip Lee’s proposal for patients to the PR company founded by ’s former Housing Minister . raised postal voting fraud. In his , be given annual statements of their healthcare adviser Tim Allan. He is a fervent supporter of the he described himself as a “radical progressive”, costs. She chairs all-party groups on the retail wave hub project at Hayle to produce green In his maiden speech, he waxed lyrical about his and wants to see low taxes, and lists his main trade and genital mutilation. energy and jobs and initiated an adjournment constituency’s industrial heritage, hailing Darwen concern as law and order. debate on the subject. as “the birthplace of wallpaper”, and called for a Email: [email protected] rebalancing of the economy towards Email: [email protected] He is a member of the Free Enterprise Group of manufacturing. Tory MPs, mostly from the 2010 intake, but is a strong critic of the behaviour of the banks. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] PRESS AND COMMUNICATIONS

Craig Oliver Christian Cubitt Susie Squire Michael Salter Director of Communications Deputy Spokesperson Head of Press Political Head of Broadcasting David Cameron's director of Cubitt works under the Prime Having worked at the Tax communications, and former Minister’s spokesman Jean- Payers Alliance as its political As head of broadcasting, senior BBC executive, Craig Christophe Gray, who was director until 2010, Squire Salter’s role is to co-ordinate Oliver replaced Andy Coulson appointed last year to replace worked for the Department for the broadcast operation of in February 2011. Oliver was the controller of Steve Field. Work and Pensions as 's Downing Street; responsible for sending ministers English services at BBC Global News, having media where she was noted for out onto the airwaves. previously been editor of the six and ten o’clock Cubitt is an interim appointment ahead of a wider her ability to press home Labour's disadvantage news programmes. Oliver was named in selection process. He was previously press on welfare reform. Recognising Squire's abilities, He too worked for the Conservatives in documents submitted to the Leveson Inquiry as secretary to Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Cameron enlisted her as head of press, replacing opposition, co-ordinating broadcast coverage at being one of eight Downing Street advisers to Heywood and the Head of the Civil Service, Sir Gabby Bertin while she is on her maternity leave . CCHQ. have had contacted Frédéric Michel, a News Bob Kerslake. Corporation lobbyist. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Jean Christophe Gray Claire Foges Alan Sendorek Liz Sugg Prime Minster’s Speechwriter Head of Political Press Head of Operations Spokesperson Former ice cream seller and A long time CCHQ staffer, As head of operations, Sugg Gray is responsible for staffer for John Hayes MP, Sendorek moved to Downing oversees the Prime Minister’s handling Cameron’s lobby Foges replaced Ameet Gill as Street in January 2011. visits and trips in the UK and briefings and acts as his Cameron's speech writer in Previously working for Michael abroad. She has been a loyal official spokesman. Although working alongside 2011. She was poached from Boris' mayoral Gove and as head of press at CCHQ, Sendorek Cameron supporter since the days of opposition. Craig Oliver’s communications team, Gray campaign in 2008 and has since been described was seen as one of the most effective press Previously, she worked as the press head for operates in a civil service capacity and therefore as “the Prime Minister’s larynx” by colleagues due officers working for the Conservatives. Conservative MEPs and for Sky News. reports to Chris Martin, the Prime Minister’s to her understanding of the way Cameron Principal Private Secretary. Gray previously communicates. It has been suggested she was Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] worked in the Treasury as head of general the primary author of the Prime Minister's much expenditure, private secretary to the chancellor anticipated EU speech. and head of press. Email: [email protected]