HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
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Former Tory energy minister Claire O’Neill – you might know her better by her former name Claire Perry
Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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FORMER Tory energy minister Claire O’Neill – you might know her better by her former name Claire Perry – has been hired as a “senior adviser” by a top international lobbying form, which also employs former Labour Party ministers.
Claire O’Neill was David Cameron’s rail minister from 2014-16 and Theresa May’s energy minister from 2017-19 before standing down at the 2019 election.
This June she became a “senior adviser” to FTI Consulting: FTI is a major international management consultancy, with a big “strategic communications” or political lobbying arm.
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