Michael Jacobs

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Michael Jacobs is a former special adviser for the Labour Party. He worked for Gordon Brown from 2004 until 2010. Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag

From October 2003 to January 2004 Jacobs was visiting research fellow at the Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University, in Melbourne, Australia, where he did research on public service reform. Following this, he was appointed a member of the Council of Economic Advisers at the UK Treasury, responsible for advising the Chancellor of the Exchequer on environmental, health and public services policy and spending. [1]

When Gordon Brown became Prime Minister in June 2007 Michael moved to 10 Downing Street as a special adviser. At Number 10 he was responsible for the development and coordination of the government’s strategy on international climate change policy and negotiations, and the development, coordination and delivery of domestic energy, climate change, environment and agriculture policy. He also provided personal political and strategy advice and speech writing for the Prime Minister. [1]


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