Peter Hyman
Peter Hyman was a special adviser in the Labour Party's Strategic Communications Unit from 1997 to 2001.[1] He worked for Tony Blair for 10 years, including roles as chief speechwriter and strategist.
He is the author of '1 out of 10, from Downing Street Vision to Classroom Reality'. [2]
Background
A graduate of Bristol University, the former BBC and Sky TV journalist Hyman worked from 1994 firstly as special adviser to Donald Dewar, later being seconded as a press officer for Tony Blair during his election campaign.[3]
Hyman, who coined the phrase "bog-standard comprehensive",[4] left his role at the Labour Party in 2003 to become a history and politics teacher at Islington Green School, a failing City Academy in North London[5] (and "the sink school to which Blair refused to send his children when he lived in the borough"[6]).
Described by Telegraph journalist Benedict Brogan as "speechwriter extraordinaire turned teacher, author and 1/3 of Newsnight’s pundit panel", Hyman announced on an April 2010 edition of Newsnight that even he expected the Tories to win the election.[7]
Contact, Resources, Notes
Notes
- ↑ Info-Dynamics Research, "Where are they now? The 1997/1998 Special Advisers to the Labour Government", GMB: April 2006 Briefing, p14, accessed 12.09.10
- ↑ Peter Hyman The Guardian, accessed 3 November 2014
- ↑ Martin McElwee, "The Great and the Good? The rise of the new class", Centre for Policy Studies, p55, accessed 15.09.10
- ↑ BBC, "Writer's 'bog standard' regrets ", 07.02.05, accessed 15.09.10
- ↑ Info-Dynamics Research, "Where are they now? The 1997/1998 Special Advisers to the Labour Government", GMB: April 2006 Briefing, p14, accessed 12.09.10
- ↑ Gerald Isamaan, "Journey from Camelot to the real Grange Hill ", Camden New Journal, accessed 15.09.10
- ↑ Benedict Brogan, "General Election 2010: Have you noticed that Labour folk are predicting a Tory majority?", The Telegraph, 07.04.10, accessed 15.09.10