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| − | Kirsty McNeill is a former Downing Street adviser and currently director of [[Themba HQ]], a consulting firm. She spent three years at Number 10 leading on campaign, communication and outreach activities for Prime Minister [[Gordon Brown]]. <ref> [http://www.nusconnect.org.uk/news/article/anewdeal/Keynote-speaker-Kirsty-McNeill/ Keynote speaker: Kirsty McNeill] ''NUS Connect'', accessed 20 October 2014 </ref> | + | [[Kirsty McNeill]] is Scottish Labour and Co-operative MP candidate for Midlothian in the 2024 General Election. |
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| + | She is a former Downing Street adviser and currently director of [[Themba HQ]], a consulting firm. She spent three years at Number 10 leading on campaign, communication and outreach activities for Prime Minister [[Gordon Brown]]. <ref> [http://www.nusconnect.org.uk/news/article/anewdeal/Keynote-speaker-Kirsty-McNeill/ Keynote speaker: Kirsty McNeill] ''NUS Connect'', accessed 20 October 2014 </ref> | ||
She is also on the boards of the [[Holocaust Educational Trust]] and the [[Holocaust Memorial Day Trust]] as well as sitting on the [[Campaign Council of British Influence]], the cross-party campaign to keep Britain in the EU. She is part of the team behind [[www.ShouldWe.org]], a new start-up providing non-partisan, online, crowd-sourced guides to public policy and evidence. <ref name= "McNeill"> [http://www.thembahq.com/people/kirsty-mcneill-3/ Our People] ''Themba HQ'', accessed 20 October 2014 </ref> | She is also on the boards of the [[Holocaust Educational Trust]] and the [[Holocaust Memorial Day Trust]] as well as sitting on the [[Campaign Council of British Influence]], the cross-party campaign to keep Britain in the EU. She is part of the team behind [[www.ShouldWe.org]], a new start-up providing non-partisan, online, crowd-sourced guides to public policy and evidence. <ref name= "McNeill"> [http://www.thembahq.com/people/kirsty-mcneill-3/ Our People] ''Themba HQ'', accessed 20 October 2014 </ref> | ||
Latest revision as of 14:45, 10 June 2024
Kirsty McNeill is Scottish Labour and Co-operative MP candidate for Midlothian in the 2024 General Election.
She is a former Downing Street adviser and currently director of Themba HQ, a consulting firm. She spent three years at Number 10 leading on campaign, communication and outreach activities for Prime Minister Gordon Brown. [1] She is also on the boards of the Holocaust Educational Trust and the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust as well as sitting on the Campaign Council of British Influence, the cross-party campaign to keep Britain in the EU. She is part of the team behind www.ShouldWe.org, a new start-up providing non-partisan, online, crowd-sourced guides to public policy and evidence. [2]
Background
McNeill was a trusted aide of Gordon Brown; she worked as his adviser in charge of external affairs. [3] She now worked as a strategy consultant to some of the world's leading campaigning organisations. [4]
Previously McNeill worked on the board of Make Poverty History and managed the Stop AIDS Campaign, successfully negotiating a commitment to universal access to AIDS treatment from the 2005 G8. She also worked as a campaigner for Shelter and in the Oxfam celebrities unit. [2]
Notes
- ↑ Keynote speaker: Kirsty McNeill NUS Connect, accessed 20 October 2014
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Our People Themba HQ, accessed 20 October 2014
- ↑ Pandora's People to Watch in 2010 The Independent, accessed 20 October 2014
- ↑ Kirsty McNeill The Guardian, accessed 20 October 2014
