Tim Allan

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(SPAD, PR consultant)
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Succeeded David Cameron at BSkyB
Born1970

Tim Allan is a public relations consultant and is a former Special Adviser to Tony Blair from 1992 to 1998.[1]

He is the founder and managing director of Portland Communications in London, England. 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.[2]

Blair's SPAD

Tim Allan's SPAD 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 Alastair Campbell's deputy director of communications at 10 Downing Street.

Cameron's successor

Between leaving work within politics in 1998 and setting up his PR consultancy in February 2001, Tim Allan followed in David Cameron's footsteps as Director of Corporate Communications at BSkyB.[3]

External links

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References

  1. 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").
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  3. "Profile: Tim Allan, MD, Portland"
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