Adam Werritty

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Adam Werritty is a former executive director of the Atlantic Bridge.[1]

Werritty accompanied the then Shadow Defence Secretary Liam Fox on a visit to the Gulf Research Center on 15 April 2007.[2]

Werritty attended the Ninth Herzliya Conference in 2009, and was listed in the book of conference conclusions as "Dr. Adam Werritty, Advisor, Office of Shadow Defense Secretary; UK Executive Director, The Atlantic Bridge".[3]

Background

Werritty attended Madras College in St Andrews, Scotland, before going to Edinburgh University in 1997, where he became vice-president of the Young Conservatives. He graduated with a 2:2 in Public Policy. According to the Mail, he first met Liam Fox at a Burns Night supper organised by the Young Conservatives.[4]

Opposition Researcher

in a 2011 Commons statement, Liam Fox said he first met Werritty in 1998:

While in opposition he worked as a paid intern in my House of Commons office and at this time had a Parliamentary Pass. He also received payments for research work undertaken during my time in opposition. Records currently show total payment of £5800 over this period.[5]

Atlantic Bridge

Werritty was listed as UK Executive Director of the Atlantic Bridge on the organisation's website as of 15 April 2008. Liam Fox was listed as chairman of the Board of Trustees.[6]

In 2010 the Charity Commission completed a regulatory case report that conclude Atlantic Bridge's "current activities must cease immediately" because it promoted a political policy closely associated with the Conservatives. In September 2010, Third Sector reported that blogger Stephen Newton was challenging the Commission's decision to launch a regulatory inquiry rather than a statutory one. Werritty declined to comment for the story.[7]

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Notes

  1. Conference Conclusions: The Ninth Herzliya Conference, Institute for Policy and Strategy, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, p.58.
  2. Press Room, Gulf Research Center, accessed 14 October 2011.
  3. Conference Conclusions: The Ninth Herzliya Conference, Institute for Policy and Strategy, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, p.58.
  4. Ian Drury, Tim Shipman and Rob Cooper, 'He loves his wife': MP defends Liam Fox amid 'wild gossip' about his sex life after it emerges young male friend was at his flat when it was burgled, Mail Online, 13 October 2011.
  5. Andrew Sparrow, Politics blog - Liam Fox faces questions, guardian.co.uk, 10 October 2011.
  6. Who We are, Atlantic Bridge, archived at the Internet Archive on 15 April 2008, accessed 17 October 2011.
  7. John Plummer, Charity Commission faces threat of a judicial review, Third Sector, 21 September 2010.