Post by marky on Dec 11, 2010 17:37:32 GMT
Name: Sarah Hunter
BBC Position: Policy Department
BBC Position: Policy Department
"Sarah Hunter has all the qualifications to be a Downing Street special adviser.
Graduate of Cambridge University? Tick. Experience of working in the policy department of the BBC? Tick. God-daughter of former lord chancellor (and close friend of Tony Blair) Derry Irvine? Tick.
No wonder Ms Hunter got the job. With the departure of former media policy adviser Ed Richards (also ex-BBC) to Ofcom, it is up to Ms Hunter to secure the safe passage through parliament of the communications bill that Mr Richards did so much to draft.
Currently occupying her mind will be Lord Puttnam's amendment to the so-called "Murdoch clause". Rebel Labour peer Lord Puttnam, backed by a groundswell of support in the Lords, wants a public interest clause inserted to make it harder for Rupert Murdoch - or any other newspaper owner - to snap up Channel Five.
If she needs any advice, Ms Hunter can always turn to her partner Jim Godfrey, special adviserr to the trade and industry secretary, Patricia Hewitt.
Ms Hunter, who is a veteran of the Channel 4 policy department, first worked for Tony Blair in 1994 as an assistant on the future prime minister's triumphant Labour leadership campaign.
She has worked as a PA for Peter Mandelson and was transport manager for Mr Blair during the 1997 general election campaign." Guardian