Ben Mascall
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Ben Mascall is the deputy director of communications for the Conservative Party. [1] Patrick McLoughlin hired Mascall to focus on the Media. Until recently Mascall was fire-fighting on the education brief as a Conservative campaign headquarter press officer. [2]
Mascall was hired to replace Tim Collins in 2012. Giles Kenningham said that "Tim's departure is a big loss but in Ben we've got a first-class operator who will be a great asset to the press office." [1]
From lobbyist to Tory press aide
Mascall was political press adviser for health and education for the Conservative Party from November 2010 until September 2012. Before this, he held a short-term role of account director at Bell Pottinger from August to November 2010. [1]
Mascall worked as an account director and account manager at MS&L Worldwide in 2008-2009. He was also a senior consultant at lobbying and PR consultancy Financial Dynamics from June 2006 until May 2008. [1]
He was formerly the special adviser for the Department for Transport to David Cameron.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Daniel Farey-Jones Conservative Party loses deputy comms chief to Barratt PR Week, 23 September 2014 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "Mascall" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ SpAd Movements – Glover Out of No.10 order-order.com, 27 September 2012, accessed 16 October 2014
