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Lucy Brown: New page: {{Template: Revolving Door badge}} '''Sophie Linden''' was a special adviser to the Labour Party from 1997 to 2005Info-Dynamics Research, "[http://www.scribd.com/doc/37220673/5D3DCAA1...

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New page: {{Template: Revolving Door badge}} '''Sophie Linden''' was a special adviser to the Labour Party from 1997 to 2005<ref>Info-Dynamics Research, "[http://www.scribd.com/doc/37220673/5D3DCAA1...

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'''Sophie Linden''' was a special adviser to the Labour Party from 1997 to 2005<ref>Info-Dynamics Research, "[http://www.scribd.com/doc/37220673/5D3DCAA1-15AB-4CF0-B7A5-EB449C165AF2-List-of-Advisers-April-2006-Congress-Final Where are they now? The 1997/1998 Special Advisers to the Labour Government]", ''GMB: April 2006 Briefing'', p7, accessed 20.09.10</ref> and is a former lobbyist for [[Bell Pottinger Public Affairs]].

==Background==

Prior to the 2001 election, Linden was a part-time special adviser to Labour MP [[David Blunkett]] at the [[Department for Education and Employment]] (DfEE); later moving to the Home Office.

===2006, Lobbying===

In January 2006, she joined the lobbying firm [[Bell Pottinger Public Affairs]] (BPPA) as a Director, where her biography apparently "highlights her SA role".<ref>Info-Dynamics Research, "[http://www.scribd.com/doc/37220673/5D3DCAA1-15AB-4CF0-B7A5-EB449C165AF2-List-of-Advisers-April-2006-Congress-Final Where are they now? The 1997/1998 Special Advisers to the Labour Government]", ''GMB: April 2006 Briefing'', p7, accessed 20.09.10</ref> BPPA Managing Director [[Peter Bingle]] described Linden as "one of the best ministerial advisers of this generation".<ref>Staff writers, "[http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/search/534025/Bell-Pottinger-appoints-former-New-Labour-aides/ Bell Pottinger appoints former New Labour aides]", ''PR Week UK'', 05.01.06, accessed 20.09.10</ref>

===2010, Labour parliamentary candidate for Leyton and Wanstead===

In 2006, Linden became Labour Councillor for the Dalston Ward in Hackney.<ref>Hackney Labour Party, "[http://www.hackney-labour.org.uk/candidates?PageId=1d4fc5bd-6791-ba64-4112-bc06d7c5f626 Your Labour councillors for Dalston]", accessed 20.09.10</ref> In 2010, she was shortlisted for consideration as the Labour parliamentary candidate for Leyton and Wanstead, angering local Labour activists who felt that local members were "sidelined" by regional bosses.<ref>Carl Brown, "[http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/wfnews/5004846.LEYTON__Anger_as_Labour_sidelines_local_party_members/ LEYTON/WANSTEAD: Anger as Labour sidelines local party members]", ''Waltham Forest News'', accessed 20.09.10</ref> Linden lost out to [[John Cryer]], now MP for Leyton and Wanstead, who held the seat for Labour.<ref>BBC, "[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/constituency/c63.stm Leyton & Wanstead]", accessed 20.09.10</ref>

Linden's biography on her candidacy bid website - which omits to mention her role at BPPA - reads as follows:<ref>Sophie Linden, "[http://www.sophielinden.co.uk/about.html About Me]", accessed 20.09.10</ref>

::I am a committed, hard working campaigner with strong local and national experience. I have been a member of the party for over 20 years. I have spent my adult life standing up for Labour values and for those who most depend on us.

::My earliest experience of elections was taking numbers at polling stations for my mother who won a council seat off the Tories in the early 1980s.

::From 1992-1997 I worked as a researcher to David Blunkett MP. I have experience of developing Labour policy in opposition and Labour’s attacks on the Tories and Liberal Democrats.

::From 1997-2005 I was privileged to serve the Labour government in the Department for Education and the Home Office as a special adviser. I personally worked with Labour MPs and the party to deliver historic Labour goals of lowering class sizes, providing free nursery education and Sure Start; reducing crime and anti-social behaviour; delivering neighbourhood policing and reducing the harm that drugs cause.

::Since 2006 I have served as a Hackney councillor and a cabinet member for customer services and sustainability. I work tirelessly as a ward councillor. I am passionate about building safer communities and tackling inequality.

::I work with the Labour group to implement and develop our manifesto commitments. I have developed our environmental policies to ensure that our work to reduce carbon emissions is focused on tackling fuel poverty.

::Other life experience:

::I am rooted in East London. I have lived in Hackney for 20 years, I moved here when I was 16, and chose to come back and live in East London after university. I would love the opportunity to use my experience to serve the people of Leyton and Wanstead. I have also worked for the [[End Child Poverty]] campaign – building up its membership and campaigning to raise the profile of the injustice of child poverty in Britain.

::I have taken an active role in improving the life chances and opportunities of those who live in East London. I am on the board of [[Groundwork East London]] whose objective is to improve the lives and environment of residents – including Waltham Forest and Redbridge.

::I am a member of [[Unite]]. I am married to a Headteacher and we have four lovely children.

==Contact, Resources, Notes==

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Olivia Rendall at 14:49, 30 April 2015

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Lucy Brown: /* Contact, Resources, Notes */

Lucy Brown: New page: {{Template: Revolving Door badge}} '''Sophie Linden''' was a special adviser to the Labour Party from 1997 to 2005Info-Dynamics Research, "[http://www.scribd.com/doc/37220673/5D3DCAA1...