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| − | Originally an aide to [[Tony Blair]] while he was Shadow Home Secretary, Preston was transferred to a role working for [[Cherie Blair]]; a position recalled here by her colleague [[Fiona Millar]]: | + | Originally an aide to [[Tony Blair]] while he was Shadow Home Secretary, in 1997 Preston was transferred to a role working for [[Cherie Blair]]; a position recalled here by her colleague [[Fiona Millar]]: |
::If Cherie signalled her intention to do things differently early on, a lot of things changed inside Downing Street, too. Following the precedent set by Norma Major, who fought for a part-time secretary paid for by the government, former Blair aide Roz Preston and I were taken on as a job share to deal with the diary and thousands of letters she started to receive - a job I subsequently did full-time. The whole nature of the events programme was changed as we opened it up to scores of small, low-key charities and ensured that all the big government events were attended by managers and workers from the public sector and not just the great and the good.<ref>Fiona Millar, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2004/sep/16/marketingandpr.cherieblair Being Cherie]", 16.09.04, accessed 15.09.10</ref> | ::If Cherie signalled her intention to do things differently early on, a lot of things changed inside Downing Street, too. Following the precedent set by Norma Major, who fought for a part-time secretary paid for by the government, former Blair aide Roz Preston and I were taken on as a job share to deal with the diary and thousands of letters she started to receive - a job I subsequently did full-time. The whole nature of the events programme was changed as we opened it up to scores of small, low-key charities and ensured that all the big government events were attended by managers and workers from the public sector and not just the great and the good.<ref>Fiona Millar, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2004/sep/16/marketingandpr.cherieblair Being Cherie]", 16.09.04, accessed 15.09.10</ref> | ||
Revision as of 12:51, 15 September 2010
Roz Preston is a former part-time special adviser to the Labour Party[1]
Background
Originally an aide to Tony Blair while he was Shadow Home Secretary, in 1997 Preston was transferred to a role working for Cherie Blair; a position recalled here by her colleague Fiona Millar:
- If Cherie signalled her intention to do things differently early on, a lot of things changed inside Downing Street, too. Following the precedent set by Norma Major, who fought for a part-time secretary paid for by the government, former Blair aide Roz Preston and I were taken on as a job share to deal with the diary and thousands of letters she started to receive - a job I subsequently did full-time. The whole nature of the events programme was changed as we opened it up to scores of small, low-key charities and ensured that all the big government events were attended by managers and workers from the public sector and not just the great and the good.[2]
Preston is the wife of the Labour-supporting record industry mogul John Preston.[3]
Contact, Resources, Notes
Notes
- ↑ Info-Dynamics Research, "Where are they now? The 1997/1998 Special Advisers to the Labour Government", GMB: April 2006 Briefing, p24, accessed 12.09.10
- ↑ Fiona Millar, "Being Cherie", 16.09.04, accessed 15.09.10
- ↑ Martin McElwee, "[The Great and the Good? The rise of the new class]", Centre for Policy Studies, p56, accessed 15.09.10
