Guy Robinson
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Guy Robinson is a lobbyist who was a longstanding special adviser to the UK government's environment department until June 2017. He worked for three UK environment secretaries - Andrea Leadsom after she was appointed in July 2016. [1] He was previously special adviser to the former UK environment secretary Owen Paterson from 2012 until Paterson was replaced by Elizabeth Truss as minister in the July 2014 cabinet reshuffle.
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Career
Robinson previously worked at lobbyist Lynton Crosby's UK firm Crosby Textor Fullbrook until September 2012. [2]
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Robinson was also previously head of political research at the Countryside Alliance. [3]
For his role as special adviser to Liz Truss, Robinson was paid an annual salary of £60,000. [4]
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Resources
See: Fracking Spads
- Melissa Jones and Andy Rowell, Access all areas: Westminster's (vast) fracking lobby exposed, 29 April 2015.
Notes
- ↑ Westbourne Communications special advisers map, Westbourne Communications, accessed 5 December 2016.
- ↑ James Lyons, Lynton Crosby: New claims as energy lobbying firm's ex-staff man gets top Government job, Mirror.co.uk, 25 July 2013
- ↑ Matt Cartmell Guy Robinson appointed DEFRA special adviser PR Week, 21 September 2012, Accessed 10 September 2014
- ↑ Special advisers in post, 30 November 2014 GOV.UK, accessed 29 April 2015