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'''Dr Tim Leunig''' has been a senior policy adviser to the secretary of state for environment food and rural affairs [[Michael Gove]] and an expert adviser at the [[Department for Education]] (DfE) since 2017. <ref> LinkedIn, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-leunig/ Tim Leunig], last accessed 27 June 2019 </ref>
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'''Dr Tim Leunig''' has been a senior policy adviser to the secretary of state for environment food and rural affairs [[Michael Gove]] since 2017 and an expert adviser at the [[Department for Education]] (DfE) since 2018. <ref> LinkedIn, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-leunig/ Tim Leunig], last accessed 27 June 2019 </ref>
  
==Policy Exchange==
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==Policy Exchange report==
 
The ''Financial Times'' reported in 2008 on a report authored by Leunig:  
 
The ''Financial Times'' reported in 2008 on a report authored by Leunig:  
 
:Mr Cameron’s aides have joked that Policy Exchange was now his “least favourite think-tank” after it published a report suggesting towns such as Sunderland and Liverpool were “beyond saving” and that their residents should move south.  The report was hugely embarrassing for the Tory leader. But it is a sign of these flexible ideological times that '''Tim Leunig''', its author, turned out to be a prominent Liberal Democrat.<ref>George Parker, [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/a8990ad0-7453-11dd-bc91-0000779fd18c,dwp_uuid=34c8a8a6-2f7b-11da-8b51-00000e2511c8,print=yes.html Think-tank feels pinch as rival cashes in], ''Financial Times'', 27 August 2008.</ref>
 
:Mr Cameron’s aides have joked that Policy Exchange was now his “least favourite think-tank” after it published a report suggesting towns such as Sunderland and Liverpool were “beyond saving” and that their residents should move south.  The report was hugely embarrassing for the Tory leader. But it is a sign of these flexible ideological times that '''Tim Leunig''', its author, turned out to be a prominent Liberal Democrat.<ref>George Parker, [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/a8990ad0-7453-11dd-bc91-0000779fd18c,dwp_uuid=34c8a8a6-2f7b-11da-8b51-00000e2511c8,print=yes.html Think-tank feels pinch as rival cashes in], ''Financial Times'', 27 August 2008.</ref>

Revision as of 09:08, 27 June 2019

Dr Tim Leunig has been a senior policy adviser to the secretary of state for environment food and rural affairs Michael Gove since 2017 and an expert adviser at the Department for Education (DfE) since 2018. [1]

Policy Exchange report

The Financial Times reported in 2008 on a report authored by Leunig:

Mr Cameron’s aides have joked that Policy Exchange was now his “least favourite think-tank” after it published a report suggesting towns such as Sunderland and Liverpool were “beyond saving” and that their residents should move south. The report was hugely embarrassing for the Tory leader. But it is a sign of these flexible ideological times that Tim Leunig, its author, turned out to be a prominent Liberal Democrat.[2]

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References

  1. LinkedIn, Tim Leunig, last accessed 27 June 2019
  2. George Parker, Think-tank feels pinch as rival cashes in, Financial Times, 27 August 2008.
  3. George Parker, Think-tank feels pinch as rival cashes in, Financial Times, 27 August 2008.