Jonathan Oates
Jonathan Oates is a "top public relations consultant and former Deputy [Liberal Leader] Leader of Kingston Council has been appointed by the Liberal Democrats as their new Director of Policy and Communications."[1] Furthermore,
- Oates has extensive experience in the fields of media and political campaigning. He has worked with Mark Bolland, former media adviser to the Prince of Wales, and spent two years working in the South Africa Parliament advising the then Home Affairs Minister, Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi and other Cabinet Ministers in the South African government as part of a democracy development project sponsored by the Westminster Foundation for Democracy.
A former Deputy Leader of Kingston Council, Oates was the Election Agent for Edward Davey MP (now Chief of Staff to Menzies Campbell) at the 1997 General Election, resulting in a stunning victory overturning a substantial Conservative majority. He was election adviser to Jeremy Browne MP who took the seat of Taunton from the Conservatives in the 2005 election.
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External Resources
- ^Liberal Democrats Press Release, Liberal Democrats appoint Jonathan Oates as new director of policy and communications, 6 Feb. 2007.
