Oliver Dowden

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Oliver Dowden was appointed deputy chief of staff to the UK Prime Minister David Cameron in 2012. Oliver has recently been selected as the Conservative candidate in Hertsmere. [1]

Background

Dowden studied law at Cambridge. In 2004 joined the Conservative Research Department. He left the Tories in 2007 to work for the PR company Hill & Knowlton but returned to the party to work alongside Andy Coulson in early 2009.[2]

Notes

  1. Peter Hoskin Oliver Dowden selected for Hertsmere Conservative Home, 8 October 2014, accessed 10 October 2014
  2. Jane Merrick, 'Olive' in charge after No 10 shake-up, The Independent, 14 October 2012 , accessed 17 September 2014,