John Hayes

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John Hayes was appointed as UK Prime Minister David Cameron's senior parliamentary adviser at No 10 Downing Street in a surprise mini-reshuffle in late March 2013, after serving just seven months as Minister of State at the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Hayes had replaced energy minister Charles Hendry in September 2012 but his controversial tenure brought in-fighting at the department over renewable energy policies. "Ferocious clashes" with his boss the Liberal Democrat energy secretary Ed Davey

Variously described as a "robust right-winger", Hayes was previously a Minister of State at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.[1]

Along with Labour MP David Cairns, Hayes was a parliamentary chairman for the pro-American America In The World, also known as the London Centre for the Study of Anti-Americanism, launched in October 2008.[2]

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  1. Full list of new cabinet ministers and other government appointments, guardian.co.uk, 13 May 2010.
  2. About AITW, America In The World, 17 August 2008, accessed 27 October 2012