Philip Collins (special adviser)

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Phil Collins was a special adviser at the Number 10 Policy Unit. He was previously director at the Social Market Foundation, but left after the 2005 general election to take up a post 'as a speech writer and strategic thinker. He has written widely on public service reform and for a while had sought a Labour seat.[1]

Collins now works for Fishburn Hedges offering counsel to the agency's clients.[2] Fishburn's clients are listed as AB Sugar | Britvic | Cambridge Nanosystems | Digital UK | EE | Energy UK | Gatwick Airport | Gondola Group | Jaguar Land Rover | L'Oreal | Mace | MTR Corporation | Network Rail | Property Opower | SMMT | Tetra Pak | Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay | Virgin Trains [3]

Collins was scheduled to attend a Scottish Labour Party fringe event in Perth in April 2002, sponsored by the SMF and Scottish Power titled 'Corporate Social Responsibility - Who Cares?' Evidently Collins didn't as he was too busy playing football to bother showing up.[4]


Notes

  1. 'Patrick Wintour, The Guardian 11th May 2005, Top Blair adviser quits for her family Last Accessed 27th July 2007
  2. Alec Mattinson Fishhburn Hedges brings in three senior non-exec advisers, 5 July 2011, Accessed 8 September 2014
  3. APPC Register 2014 [1] Accessed 9/9/2014
  4. 'Corporate Social Responsibility - Who Cares? 18 April 2002, Scottish Labour Party Conference, Perth. Transcript of session.