Peter Carroll
Peter Carroll was the founder of the Fair Fuel Campaign.
Carroll is a former special adviser to Kent Police & Crime Commissioner Ann Barnes.
He was the Liberal Democrats parliamentary candidate for Folkestone & Hythe, Maidstone from 1999-2010. [1]
In 2013 he entered Parliament when he was appointed special adviser to chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander.[2] Carroll left this role after the 2015 general election which led to Alexander losing his seat and the Lib Dems no longer being in government. For his role as special adviser to Alexander, Carroll was paid an annual salary of £75,000. [3]
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Background
Carroll has led many campaigns on wide-ranging issues across the political, private and public sectors. His highest profile work was The Gurkha Justice Campaign. [1]
Carroll co-founded the www.fairfueluk.com campaign, which was 'widely credited with influencing the Government to abandon several successive rises in fuel duty'.
He was also campaign manager for the independent candidate for Kent Police & Crime Commissioner Ann Barnes, who won with a landslide in the November 2012 election. He was special adviser to Barnes from Nov 2012 through to Nov 2013. [1]
Previous roles also include founder of Peter Carroll Associates, Director and Part Owner of Astran Cargo Services Limited, International Freight Forwarder.
Carroll was guest speaker at the 'Confessions of a SPAD' talk in February 2014. At the talk he provided an insight into his last few months working in Westminster and details regarding his role as a special adviser. [4]
Education
Carroll studied Physics & Electronics at the University of Manchester. [1]
Contact
- Twitter Peter Carroll
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Peter Carroll LinkedIn profile, accessed 19 September 2014.
- ↑ Laura Hailstone FairFuelUK’s Peter Carroll moves on to Treasury, Commercial Motor, 11.11.2013, accessed 19 September 2014.
- ↑ Special advisers in post, 30 November 2014 GOV.UK, accessed 29 April 2015
- ↑ Confessions of a SPAD: A Hot Potato Evening for Shepway Lib Dems shepwaylibdems.org.uk, accessed 28 October 2014
