Isabel Spearman

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Isabel Spearman was a special adviser to Downing Street from 2010 to 2015. Spearman worked for the prime ministers's wife, Samantha Cameron, as her righthand woman, concentrating on helping to 'run her diary and pull together outfits for public events' according to The Guardian. [1]

After the 2015 general election, Spearman left her role with Downing Street and plans to set up her own 'brand and image consultancy'.[2]

Background

Spearman previously worked for the fashion designer Anya Hindmarch,[3] who worked for Spearman's former employer Samantha Cameron's Mother, Lady Astor.[2]

The Evening Standard states that Spearman started off 'working for Mrs Cameron’s mother, Lady Astor, at her furniture company Oka after having been employed as a PR executive to handbag designer Anya Hindmarch, one of Samantha Cameron’s closest friends.' [4]

Notes

  1. Jess Cartner-Morley The importance of Samantha Cameron Guardian, 12 May 2010, accessed 27 February 2015
  2. 2.0 2.1 David Singleton Sam Cam's top aide Isabel Spearman to set up own PR firm Total Politics, 21 June 2015, accessed 24 June 2015.
  3. Richard Eden, David Cameron's eligible aide Isabel Spearman is to marry stepson of racehorse breeder Lord Oaksey, The Telegraph, 11 December 2011, accessed 27 February 2015
  4. Maxine Frith,First aides: why every superwoman needs a girl Friday London Evening Standard, 19 December 2013, accessed 27 february 2015