Susie Squire

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Susie Squire is the former head of communication at the Stockholm Network and a campaign manager for the Taxpayers Alliance.[1] In 2010 she became a special advisor to Iain Duncan Smith at the Department for Work and Pensions.[2]

2007-2008 Stockholm Network

Susie Squire joined the Stockholm Network in February 2007 following an internship, she later became 'Network Development Manager' for the think tank, she worked at the SN until 2008 when she joined the Taxpayers' Alliance[3] In 2007 she attended the Centre for the New Europe event entitled the 'Capitalist Ball'.[4]

2008-2010 Taxpayers' Alliance

In December 2008 Susie Squire was asked by Nick Ferrari on his LBC Breakfast Radio Show if the Taxpayers Alliance was 'secretly Conservative?', she responded by saying:

I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I can’t have that – that’s outrageous! That’s just absolutely outrageous!' adding 'we’re totally independent, we talk to everyone. I mean, God, I was in Wales at the end of last week, giving evidence on MPs’ expenses to a cross-party independent panel in the Welsh Assembly. We talk to everyone who wants to talk to us. We produce research that goes out to many MPs, cross-party, that goes out to journalists. We don’t have a party preference. Yes of course we have advisors and we have a board – any think tank worth its salt does. We’ll talk to anyone.'[5]

Squire left the Taxpayers Alliance in May 2010 to work as an advisor to the Conservative Party's Iain Duncan Smith.[6]

2010-Present Special Advisor to the Department of Work and Pensions

Hospitality

Since becoming a special advisor Squire has been given hospitality by the Daily Mail four times, three times by the Telegraph twice by the BBC, the Spectator and once by The Times and Press Gallery.[7]

Publications

Susie Squire, Broke Britannia, The Guardian, 24-April-2009

Affiliations

Taxpayers Alliance | Stockholm Network

Notes

  1. Newswire, Tax Payers Alliance challenged, Liberal Conspiracy, 17-December-2008, Accessed 25-June-2010
  2. Guido Fawkes, Susie Squire Slips in to Spinning at the DWP for IDS, Guido Fawkes, 27-May-2010, Accessed 25-June-2010
  3. Susie Squire, Susie Squire's Experience, Linkedin, Accessed 28-March-2011
  4. Stockholm Network, Photos, Stockholm Network, Accessed 28-March-2011
  5. Newswire, Tax Payers Alliance challenged, Liberal Conspiracy, 17-December-2008, Accessed 25-June-2010
  6. Guido Fawkes, Susie Squire Slips in to Spinning at the DWP for IDS, Guido Fawkes, 27-May-2010, Accessed 25-June-2010
  7. Department of Work and Pensions, Executive Team Hospitality, Department of Work and Pensions, Accessed 28-March-2011