James Starkie

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James Starkie has been a special adviser to environment secretary Michael Gove since October 2017.

He spent the previous year working for lobbying firm Portland Communications.

Prior to that, Starkie was head of the regional press team on the Vote Leave campaign to pull Britain out of the European Union in 2016..