Gabrielle Bertin, Baroness Bertin
The Baroness Bertin | |
|---|---|
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 2 September 2016 Life Peerage | |
| Downing Street Press Secretary | |
| In office 2010–2012 | |
| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Damian McBride |
| Succeeded by | Susie Squire |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Gabrielle Louise Bertin 14 March 1978 |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
Gabrielle Louise Bertin, Baroness Bertin (born 14 March 1978[1]) is a British Conservative member of the House of Lords and political aide best known for her association with David Cameron during his term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Career
[edit]Bertin was educated at Croydon High School and Southampton University.[2]
She worked for Cameron during his time as shadow education secretary, and for Liam Fox as press secretary.[3] In 2005, Bertin became deputy press officer for Cameron.[3]
In 2003–04, she was paid £25,000 by Pfizer to work as a researcher for The Atlantic Bridge, a now-closed charity run by Fox, while he was shadow health secretary.[4] She was the sole employee of the charity, and worked with Adam Werritty, the executive director, but according to Fox, she did not work in any health role.[4][5]
By August 2013, it had been announced that she would be switched to director of external relations, with Graeme Wilson of The Sun taking up her old role.[6]
She was nominated for a life peerage as part of David Cameron's Resignation Honours list and was created Baroness Bertin, of Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth, on 2 September 2016.[7][8] She was the youngest member of the House of Lords until the induction of Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford in February 2019.[9]
She is a member of the Joint Committee on the Draft Domestic Abuse Bill.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "MyParliament Biography". Archived from the original on 21 June 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
- ^ "Home". conservativeintelligence.com.
- ^ a b Thomson, Alice. "The Camp David team". Retrieved 5 August 2016.
- ^ a b Neate, Rupert (11 October 2011). "David Cameron's aide worked for Liam Fox charity". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
- ^ "House of Commons - Dr Liam Fox - Standards and Privileges Committee". www.publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
- ^ PoliticsHome.com (4 August 2016). "David Cameron appoints 13 new Conservative peers, as Shami Chakrabarti also takes seat in Lords". Retrieved 5 August 2016.
- ^ "Resignation Honours 2016 - Publications - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
- ^ "No. 61699". The London Gazette. 8 September 2016. p. 19124.
- ^ "Membership and principal office holders". UK Parliament.
- ^ People, Dods (11 March 2019). "New appointments this week in UK politics, the civil service and public affairs". PoliticsHome. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
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