Poppy Mitchell-Rose

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Poppy Mitchell-Rose is a former special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.[1] According to the parliamentary register of interests, she is employed by Conservative Campaign Headquarters as his deputy chief of staff.[2]

As of 2013, she is now associate board director at Freud Communications. [3]

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Background

The 30-year-old previously worked as a journalist for both the BBC and Reuters before becoming media adviser to Conservative MP Liam Fox [4] when he was shadow health secretary. She joined Osborne’s team in 2006. Her long-term boyfriend Ben Wright is a BBC journalist and the son of Labour MP Tony Wright.[5]

In 2012 Mitchell-Rose left her post with Osborne to move to America where her boyfriend Ben Wright works. [6]

Education

Mitchell-Rose was educated at Tony Blair’s old school, Fettes College, before going to Durham University.[5]

Gifts/benefits declared


Contact, Resources, Notes

Notes

  1. Department of Information Services, "Parliamentary Information List", accessed 07.09.10
  2. House of Commons, Parliamentary register of members' secretaries and research interests, 1 October 2010. p40
  3. Kate Magee Poppy Mitchell-Rose joins Freud PR Week, April 17, 2013, Accessed 9 September 2014
  4. Josh Neicho, "All power to the new Tories", London Evening Standard, 26.07.10, accessed 07.09.10
  5. 5.0 5.1 The coalition special advisers, Civil Service World, (the newspaper for the senior civil service) 7th April 2011, accessed 5 October 2011
  6. Richard Eden Poppy Mitchell-Rose leaves Osborne The Telegraph, 18 Nov 2012, Accessed 9 September 2014
  7. House of Commons, Parliamentary register of members' secretaries and research interests, 1 October 2010. p40