Theresa May - Revision history

Melissa Jones at 02:45, 24 July 2019

2019-07-24T02:45:02Z

Melissa Jones at 07:47, 18 June 2019

2019-06-18T07:47:42Z

Melissa Jones: update

2019-06-18T07:45:53Z

update

Tamasin Cave at 12:57, 23 November 2017

2017-11-23T12:57:57Z

Tamasin Cave: /* Special Advisers */

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Special Advisers

Tamasin Cave: /* As of Dec 2016 */

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As of Dec 2016

Tamasin Cave: /* As of Dec 2016 */

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As of Dec 2016

Tamasin Cave: /* Special Advisers */

2017-11-23T11:41:17Z

Special Advisers

Melissa Jones: /* Former */

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Former

Melissa Jones: /* tbc */

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tbc

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 [[Theresa May]] MP is the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the [[Conservative Party]], having succeeded [[David Cameron]] following his resignation in 2016. May had previously served as Secretary of State for the Home Department and Minister for Women and Equality for six years. <ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36785814 'Who's in and Who's Out? May's new cabinet', 14 July 2016], ''BBC News'', accessed 15 July 2016</ref>
-She stepped down as PM in June 2019 under pressure from her party over the handling of Brexit.
+She stepped down as PM in July 2019 under pressure from her party over the handling of Brexit.
 May has been the [[Conservative]] MP for Maidenhead since 1997 and in 2015 won with 65.8 percent of the vote.<ref> BBC News [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000803 Maidenhead], accessed 11 May 2015.</ref>

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 [[Image:Theresa_May.jpg|right|thumb|Theresa May]]
-[[Theresa May]] MP is the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the [[Conservative Party]], having succeeded [[David Cameron]] following his resignation in 2016. She stepped down in June 2019.  May had previously served as Secretary of State for the Home Department and Minister for Women and Equality for six years. <ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36785814 'Who's in and Who's Out? May's new cabinet', 14 July 2016], ''BBC News'', accessed 15 July 2016</ref>
+[[Theresa May]] MP is the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the [[Conservative Party]], having succeeded [[David Cameron]] following his resignation in 2016. May had previously served as Secretary of State for the Home Department and Minister for Women and Equality for six years. <ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36785814 'Who's in and Who's Out? May's new cabinet', 14 July 2016], ''BBC News'', accessed 15 July 2016</ref>
-She has been the [[Conservative]] MP for Maidenhead since 1997 and in 2015 won with 65.8 percent of the vote.<ref> BBC News [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000803 Maidenhead], accessed 11 May 2015.</ref>
+She stepped down as PM in June 2019 under pressure from her party over the handling of Brexit.
 ==Special Advisers==

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 [[Image:Theresa_May.jpg|right|thumb|Theresa May]]
-[[Theresa May]] MP is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the [[Conservative Party]], having succeeded [[David Cameron]] following his resignation from the post. May served as Secretary of State for the Home Department and Minister for Women and Equality for a period of 6 years. <ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36785814 'Who's in and Who's Out? May's new cabinet', 14 July 2016], ''BBC News'', accessed 15 July 2016</ref>
+[[Theresa May]] MP is the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the [[Conservative Party]], having succeeded [[David Cameron]] following his resignation in 2016. She stepped down in June 2019.  May had previously served as Secretary of State for the Home Department and Minister for Women and Equality for six years. <ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36785814 'Who's in and Who's Out? May's new cabinet', 14 July 2016], ''BBC News'', accessed 15 July 2016</ref>
 She has been the [[Conservative]] MP for Maidenhead since 1997 and in 2015 won with 65.8 percent of the vote.<ref> BBC News [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000803 Maidenhead], accessed 11 May 2015.</ref>
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 As of October 2017:
 *[[Oliver Robbins]], Prime Minister's Europe adviser since September 2017; former Permanent Secretary at the [[Department for Exiting the European Union]]
-*[[Gavin Barwell]], former housing minister who lost his Croydon seat to the Labour party, was persuaded to become the PM’s new Chief of Staff in June 2017.
+*[[Gavin Barwell]], a former housing minister who lost his Croydon seat to the Labour party, was persuaded to become the PM’s new Chief of Staff in June 2017.
 *[[Joanna Penn]], deputy chief of staff
 <br>Communications:
 *[[Robbie Gibb]], director of communications. Ex-[[BBC]] politics executive
-*[[Ben Mascall]], head of strategic communications / government grid
+*[[Ben Mascall]], head of strategic communications/government grid
 *[[Paul Harrison]], press secretary
 *[[Lee Cain]], head of political press
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 ==Dinner with lobbyists==
 ===Summer ball 2013===
-Details of the attendees and seating plans of the Conservative's 2013 summer ball, an event where tickets cost up to £12,000 each and allows attendees to sit at the table with ministers, were leaked by the ''Guardian''. It revealed that May sat with [[William Sackville|Lord de la Warr]], director of [[Cluff Natural Resources]], who are exploring coal gassification in Warwickshire and [[Wafic Said]], a Syrian-Saudi businessman who helped broker the al-Yamamah arms deal.<ref> Robert Booth, Nick Mathiason, Luke Harding and Melanie Newman [http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/01/-sp-tory-summer-party-drew-super-rich-supporters-with-total-wealth-of-11bn Tory summer party drew super-rich supporters with total wealth of £11bn] ''The Guardian'', 3 July 2014, accessed 14 October 2014 </ref>
+Details of the attendees and seating plans of the Conservative's 2013 summer ball, an event where tickets cost up to £12,000 each and allows attendees to sit at the table with ministers, were leaked by the ''Guardian''. It revealed that May sat with [[William Sackville|Lord de la Warr]], director of [[Cluff Natural Resources]], who are exploring coal gasification in Warwickshire and [[Wafic Said]], a Syrian-Saudi businessman who helped broker the al-Yamamah arms deal.<ref> Robert Booth, Nick Mathiason, Luke Harding and Melanie Newman [http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/01/-sp-tory-summer-party-drew-super-rich-supporters-with-total-wealth-of-11bn Tory summer party drew super-rich supporters with a total wealth of £11bn] ''The Guardian'', 3 July 2014, accessed 14 October 2014 </ref>
 ===Black and White ball 2015===
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 One Tory donor told the ''Guardian'' he had been told if he bought a 'premium table at the event for £15,000 he would expect the company of a cabinet minister' and if 'he paid £5,000 for a standard table, he would expect a junior minister'.
-As a further way of raising money at the event, the Party sold one off prizes. These included, shoe shopping with May, a meal at the Carlton Club with [[Sajid Javid]], dinner at home with [[Michael Gove]] and a session of jogging with [[Nicky Morgan]].<ref> Rajeev Syal and Rowena Mason [http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/feb/09/conservative-donors-pay-up-to-15000-for-table-at-election-fundraiser Conservative donors pay up to £15,000 for table at election fundraiser] ''The Guardian'', 9 February 2015, accessed 11 February 2015 </ref>
+As a further way of raising money at the event, the Party sold one-off prizes. These included, shoe shopping with May, a meal at the Carlton Club with [[Sajid Javid]], dinner at home with [[Michael Gove]] and a session of jogging with [[Nicky Morgan]].<ref> Rajeev Syal and Rowena Mason [http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/feb/09/conservative-donors-pay-up-to-15000-for-table-at-election-fundraiser Conservative donors pay up to £15,000 for table at election fundraiser] ''The Guardian'', 9 February 2015, accessed 11 February 2015 </ref>
 A full list of prizes available at the event is available [http://www.buzzfeed.com/sirajdatoo/conservatives-black-and-white-fundraiser-feb-2015| here].
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 On becoming home secretary it was widely reported in the media that May had been educated at a comprehensive school.<ref>BBC News, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8678271.stm Cameron coalition: Theresa May made home secretary], BBC News, 13-May-2010, Accessed 13-May-2010</ref><ref>PA, [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-flies-the-flag-for-women-in-government-1971727.html Theresa May flies the flag for women in Government], ''The Independent'', 12-May-2010</ref> In 2007 [[Peter Hitchens]] disputed this claim:
-:Now, here's the interesting thing. Mrs May joined Holton Grammar at the age of 13 (later than the usual 11) from a private school, in 1969. She then had about two years of grammar school education. And she completed her schooling at a new comprehensive, successfully enough to win a place at St Hugh's, then a women-only college at Oxford. But in 'Dod's Parliamentary Companion', the more detailed 'Who's Who' for MPs, she sums up her secondary schooling as 'Educated at Wheatley Park Comprehensive School'. As you see, it's a lot more complicated than that. And I don't think she needed to use the word 'comprehensive' when describing her school.<ref>Peter Hitchens, [http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2007/05/index.html Lessons in Grammar], Daily Mail, 22-May-2007, Accessed 13-May-2010</ref>
+: Now, here's the interesting thing. Mrs May joined Holton Grammar at the age of 13 (later than the usual 11) from a private school, in 1969. She then had about two years of grammar school education. And she completed her schooling at a new comprehensive, successfully enough to win a place at St Hugh's, then a women-only college at Oxford. But in 'Dod's Parliamentary Companion', the more detailed 'Who's Who' for MPs, she sums up her secondary schooling as 'Educated at Wheatley Park Comprehensive School'. As you see, it's a lot more complicated than that. And I don't think she needed to use the word 'comprehensive' when describing her school.<ref>Peter Hitchens, [http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2007/05/index.html Lessons in Grammar], Daily Mail, 22-May-2007, Accessed 13-May-2010</ref>
 ==Affiliations==

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 She has been the [[Conservative]] MP for Maidenhead since 1997 and in 2015 won with 65.8 percent of the vote.<ref> BBC News [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000803 Maidenhead], accessed 11 May 2015.</ref>
 ==Special Advisers==
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 ===As of Dec 2016===
 [[Nick Timothy]] | [[Fiona Hill]] | [[John Godfrey]] | [[Katie Perrior]] | [[Chris Wilkins]] | [[Joanna Penn]] | [[Douglas McNeill]] | [[Neil O’Brien]] | [[Denzil Davidson]] | [[Chris Brannigan]] | [[Richard Jackson]] | [[Lizzie Loudon]] | [[Tom Swarbrick]] | [[Alex Dawson]] | [[Georgia Berry]] | [[Alex Burghart]] | [[Will Tanner]] | [[Liz Sanderson]] | [[Sheridan Westlake]] | [[Jonathan Hellewell]] | [[Charlotte Lawson]] | [[James McLoughlin]] | [[Nick Hargrave]] | [[Jessica Cunniffe]] | [[Ben Mascall]] | [[Edward de Minckwitz]] | [[Keelan Carr]] | [[Tim Smith]] | [[Jonathan Stock]] | [[Richard Chew]] | [[Elizabeth Hodgkinson]] | [[James Johnson]]
 ==Affiliations==

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 ==Special Advisers==
 *[[Gavin Barwell]], former housing minister who lost his Croydon seat to the Labour party, was persuaded to become the PM’s new Chief of Staff in June 2017.
-*[[Kirsty Buchanan]]
+*[[Joanna Penn]], deputy chief of staff
-*[[Lee Cain]] press
+<br>Communications:
-*[[Robbie Gibb]] - ex-BBC, now May's director of communications.
+*[[Robbie Gibb]], director of communications. Ex-[[BBC]] politics executive
-*[[Paul Harrison]]
+*[[Ben Mascall]], head of strategic communications / government grid
-*[[Liz Sanderson]] (head of features) - present
+*[[Paul Harrison]], press secretary
-*[[Tom Swarbrick]] (head of broadcast)
+*[[Lee Cain]], head of political press
-*[[Sheridan Westlake]] OBE (policy adviser)
+*[[Kirsty Buchanan]], weekends and regional press
-*[[James McLoughlin]] (adviser on business relations)
+*[[Tom Swarbrick]], head of broadcast
+*[[Liz Sanderson]], head of features
-===tbc===
+*[[James Slack]], No 10 official spokesman
-*[[Richard Chew]]
+<br>Political:
-*[[Nick Hargrave]]
+*[[Stephen Parkinson]], political secretary
-*[[Jessica Cunliffe]] (speech writer)
+*[[Alex Dawson]], political director
-*[[Denzil Davidson]] (EU adviser)
+*[[Edward de Minckwitz]], head of briefing
-*[[Richard Jackson]] MBE (media operations manager)
+*[[Chris Wilkins]], Speechwriter
-*[[Ben Mascall]] (head of strategic communications)
+*[[Keelan Carr]], speechwriter (as of Sept 2017)
-*[[Stephen Parkinson]] (political secretary)
+*[[James Johnson]], strategy
-*[[Alex Dawson]]
+*[[Sheridan Westlake]], policy adviser
 ===Former===
 *[[Katie Perrior]] (director of communications). Got out ahead of elections- resigned May 2017.
 *[[Fiona HIll]] (PM's closest adviser, co-chief of staff), forced to resign after May's disastrous June 2017 general election result.
 *[[Nick Timothy]] (co-chief of staff), As above
 ===As of Dec 2016===
-[[Nick Timothy]] | [[Fiona Hill]] | [[John Godfrey]] | [[Katie Perrior]] | [[Chris Wilkins]] | [[Joanna Penn]] | [[Douglas McNeill]] | [[Neil O’Brien]] | [[Denzil Davidson]] | [[Chris Brannigan]] | [[Richard Jackson]] | [[Lizzie Loudon]] | [[Tom Swarbrick]] | [[Alex Dawson]] | [[Georgia Berry]] | [[Alex Burghart]] | [[Will Tanner]] | [[Liz Sanderson]] | [[Sheridan Westlake]] | [[Jonathan Hellewell]] | [[Charlotte Lawson]] | [[James McLoughlin]] | [[Nick Hargrave]] | [[Jessica Cunniffe]] | [[Ben Mascall]] | [[Edward de Minckwitz]] | [[Keelan Carr]] | [[Tim Smith]] | [[Jonathan Stock]] | [[Richard Chew]] | [[Elizabeth Hodgkinson]] | [[James Johnson ]]
+[[Nick Timothy]] | [[Fiona Hill]] | [[John Godfrey]] | [[Katie Perrior]] | [[Chris Wilkins]] | [[Joanna Penn]] | [[Douglas McNeill]] | [[Neil O’Brien]] | [[Denzil Davidson]] | [[Chris Brannigan]] | [[Richard Jackson]] | [[Lizzie Loudon]] | [[Tom Swarbrick]] | [[Alex Dawson]] | [[Georgia Berry]] | [[Alex Burghart]] | [[Will Tanner]] | [[Liz Sanderson]] | [[Sheridan Westlake]] | [[Jonathan Hellewell]] | [[Charlotte Lawson]] | [[James McLoughlin]] | [[Nick Hargrave]] | [[Jessica Cunniffe]] | [[Ben Mascall]] | [[Edward de Minckwitz]] | [[Keelan Carr]] | [[Tim Smith]] | [[Jonathan Stock]] | [[Richard Chew]] | [[Elizabeth Hodgkinson]] | [[James Johnson]]
 ==Affiliations==

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 ===As of Dec 2016===
-[[Nick Timothy]] | [[Fiona Hill]] | [[John Godfrey]] | [[Katie Perrior]] | [[Chris Wilkins]] | [[Joanna Penn]] | [[Douglas McNeill]] | [[Neil O’Brien]] | [[Denzil Davidson]] | [[Chris Brannigan]] | [[Richard Jackson]] | [[Lizzie Loudon]] | [[Tom Swarbrick]] | [[Alex Dawson]] | [[Georgia Berry]] | [[Alex Burghart]] | [[Will Tanner]] | [[Liz Sanderson]] | [[Sheridan Westlake]] | [[Jonathan Hellewell]] | [[Charlotte Lawson]] | [[James McLoughlin]] | [[Nick Hargrave]] | [[Jess Cunniffe Ben Mascall]] | [[Ed de Minckwitz]] | [[Keelan Carr]] | [[Tim Smith]] | [[Jonathan Stock]] | [[Richard Chew]] | [[Elizabeth Hodgkinson]] | [[James Johnson ]]
+[[Nick Timothy]] | [[Fiona Hill]] | [[John Godfrey]] | [[Katie Perrior]] | [[Chris Wilkins]] | [[Joanna Penn]] | [[Douglas McNeill]] | [[Neil O’Brien]] | [[Denzil Davidson]] | [[Chris Brannigan]] | [[Richard Jackson]] | [[Lizzie Loudon]] | [[Tom Swarbrick]] | [[Alex Dawson]] | [[Georgia Berry]] | [[Alex Burghart]] | [[Will Tanner]] | [[Liz Sanderson]] | [[Sheridan Westlake]] | [[Jonathan Hellewell]] | [[Charlotte Lawson]] | [[James McLoughlin]] | [[Nick Hargrave]] | [[Jess Cunniffe]] | [[Ben Mascall]] | [[Edward de Minckwitz]] | [[Keelan Carr]] | [[Tim Smith]] | [[Jonathan Stock]] | [[Richard Chew]] | [[Elizabeth Hodgkinson]] | [[James Johnson ]]
 ==Affiliations==

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 ===Former===
 *[[Georgia Berry]] (policy unit lead on energy and climate change) left June 2017 after less than a year
 *[[John Godfrey]] (director of policy)
 *[[Katie Perrior]] (director of communications). Got out ahead of elections- resigned May 2017.
 *[[Tim Smith]] (head of political press)