Jonathan Powell

Tony Blair's Chief of Staff at 10 Downing Street. Brother of Thatcher's favourite PR man Charles Powell. Earns £93,562. Another of his brothers, Chris Powell was Managing Director of BMP DDB Needham, the Labour Party's advertising agency for the 1997 election.

He worked for the BBC and Granada Television before becoming a career diplomat. He was recruited by Tony Blair from the Washington Embassy where he was First Secretary, in 1995. He went to Oxford and Pennsylvania Universities. He was one of the driving forces behind the decision that one of the quickest ways to show that the Labour Party was pro-business was to take funding from business.

He has been Blair's representative at the Irish 'Peace Talks' and during the Balkan war he acted as liaison with the Defence Chief, General Sir Charles Guthrie.

He is married to Sarah Helm, a former journalist in Brussels. They made the headlines in May 2000 when they handed their 8-week-old daughter to a cloakroom attendant while they dined at the Groucho Club. In June 2000, Sarah Helms branded Tony Blair as 'fundamentally dishonest' and of 'leading people blindfold'.