Rishi Sunak, 42, will even be the UK’s first British Asian prime minister and the youngest for greater than 200 years.
He must hit the bottom working, with an unenviable in-tray of financial chaos.
Certainly one of his first duties will probably be assembling his cupboard. However the fledgling prime minister will even want to make sure his backroom group is up and working – not least in the case of comms.
Right here PRWeek appears at a number of the contenders that would turn into a part of the brand new Downing Avenue comms operation.
Cass Horowitz
The son of youngsters’s creator Michael Horowitz, and dubbed the inventive drive behind Model Rishi as a result of his manufacturing of the shiny movies utilized by the Ready4Rishi occasion management marketing campaign. He studied economics and politics at Bristol College earlier than getting a grasp’s in tv journalism at Metropolis, College of London.
Horowitz went on to work on programmes reminiscent of ITV’s Peston and BBC’s The Andrew Marr Present, and is co-founder of inventive company The Clerkenwell Brothers. He was launched to Sunak by Allegra Stratton, a colleague on ITV’s Peston programme, and was Sunak’s particular adviser from February 2020 to July 2022.
Allegra Stratton
The previous ITV Information nationwide editor is a detailed buddy of Sunak, who was the most effective man at her marriage ceremony to James Forsyth, political editor at The Spectator. Sunak appointed her as his director of strategic communications in April 2020, throughout his time as Chancellor.
Six months later she was appointed as Downing Avenue’s political press secretary. Stratton resigned in 2021 after being caught on digital camera joking about lockdown events in Downing Avenue. She is presently a contributing editor at Bloomberg Information.
Nerissa Chesterfield
A former particular adviser to Sunak throughout his time as Chancellor of Exchequer, and a number one participant within the Ready4Rishi marketing campaign – the place she ran strategic comms. She has had a key position in managing the media and Sunak’s public profile.
Chesterfield is a former head of comms on the Institute of Financial Affairs and was additionally improvement supervisor on the Vote Go away marketing campaign.
Lucy Noakes
An skilled public affairs specialist and former affiliate companion at Finsbury, who labored with Chesterfield on the Ready4Rishi marketing campaign and was a particular adviser to Sunak supporter Oliver Dowden.
Different earlier roles embrace public affairs supervisor on the Rugby Soccer Union and public coverage supervisor on the Garden Tennis Affiliation.
Katie Hile
Labored on the BBC for greater than a decade, rising to turn into senior broadcast journalist on the BBC Information at Six and BBC Information at Ten.
Sunak introduced her into the Treasury’s comms group in 2020. She is presently head of financial system and public spending comms on the Whitehall division.
Malcolm Warne
A former editor of the Darlington & Stockton Occasions, Warne is Sunak’s comms officer – primarily based in his constituency of Richmond, Yorkshire. He has held the position since Sunak was elected to Parliament.