Tim Allan

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(Spad and PR consultant)
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Succeeded David Cameron at BSkyB

Tim Allan is a public relations consultant and was an adviser to Tony Blair from 1992 to 1998.[3] He is the founder and managing director of Portland Communications in London, England.[4] In April 2012 it was reported that Allan was set to sell a majority stake in Portland to US marketing services company Omnicom for £20 million.[5]

Tim Allan's political adviser roles were researcher for Tony Blair when he was Shadow Home Secretary, deputy press secretary to Tony Blair, when leader of the Labour Party and, from 1997, he was deputy director of communications at 10 Downing Street.

Between leaving work within politics and setting up his PR consultancy, Tim Allan followed in David Cameron's footsteps in February 2001 as director of corporate communications at BSkyB.

References

  1. "Stand up, you Spads, and be accountable"
  2. "Allan says it with iPads for 80 staff at Portland"
  3. Allan, Tim (2 October 2010). "An open letter to Ed Miliband: 'If you bury the lessons of New Labour you will bury the party'". The Observer. Retrieved 11 January 2012.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  4. Singleton, David (13 May 2009). "Profile: Tim Allan, MD, Portland". PR Week UK. Retrieved 11 January 2012.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
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