Guy Robinson

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Guy Robinson was special adviser to the former UK environment secretary Owen Paterson from 2012 until Paterson was replaced by Elizabeth Truss as minister in the July 2014 cabinet reshuffle. Since July 2016, he now serves as special adviser to environment secretary Andrea Leadsom. [1]

For his role as special adviser to Truss, Robinson is paid an annual salary of £60,000. [2]

He previously worked at lobbyist Lynton Crosby's UK firm Crosby Textor Fullbrook until September 2012. [3]

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Career

Robinson was also previously head of political research at the Countryside Alliance. [4]

Affiliations

Resources

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Notes

  1. Westbourne Communications special advisers map, Westbound Communications, accessed 5 December 2018.
  2. Special advisers in post, 30 November 2014 GOV.UK, accessed 29 April 2015
  3. James Lyons, Lynton Crosby: New claims as energy lobbying firm's ex-staff man gets top Government job, Mirror.co.uk, 25 July 2013
  4. Matt Cartmell Guy Robinson appointed DEFRA special adviser PR Week, 21 September 2012, Accessed 10 September 2014