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Toff was born and grew up in Blackburn (Lancashire) in 1975. Before joining the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1997, he had been working for Blackburn Borough Council, HM Customs & Excise and Halifax Bank. In September 2015, he...
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Robin Barnett arrived in Dublin August 2016 to take up his appointment as British Ambassador to Ireland. Between 2011 - 2016 he held the post of British Ambassador to Poland and his career has previously concentrated on Central and Eastern...
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Brooks Newmark was Minister for Civil Society from 15 July until 27 September 2014. He was elected as the Conservative MP for Braintree in May 2005. Education Brooks studied at Harvard College and Harvard Business School, and was also a...
Baroness Hanham, CBE, is a Conservative member of the House of Lords, becoming a Life Peer in 1999. From 2010 to 2013, she was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Communities and Local Government, and its Minister...
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Lord Bates was Minister of State at the Department for International Development between October 2016 and July 2019. He was previously a Minister of State at the Home Office from May 2015 until March 2016. Lord Bates is a Conservative...
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