Peter Hyman

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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

  1. 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
  2. Peter Hyman The Guardian, accessed 3 November 2014
  3. Martin McElwee, "The Great and the Good? The rise of the new class", Centre for Policy Studies, p55, accessed 15.09.10
  4. BBC, "Writer's 'bog standard' regrets ", 07.02.05, accessed 15.09.10
  5. 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
  6. Gerald Isamaan, "Journey from Camelot to the real Grange Hill ", Camden New Journal, accessed 15.09.10
  7. 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