Patrick Diamond
| Patrick Diamond | |
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| Southwark Borough Councillor for Newington Ward | |
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In office 6 May 2010 – 22 May 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Jelil Ladipo |
| Succeeded by | Eleanor Kerslake |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 November 1974 |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | Clare College, Cambridge |
Patrick Diamond worked as a policy advisor under the Labour Party government of the United Kingdom in a role covering policy and strategy.
He is now a Lecturer in Public Policy at Queen Mary University of London, a vice-chair of the think-tank Policy Network, Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Oxford.
Patrick Diamond was brought up and schooled in Leeds. He worked as a kibbutz volunteer on Kibbutz Lahav in Israel in the spring of 1994. After graduating from Clare College, Cambridge, with a double first-class honours in Social and Political Sciences and a M.Phil from the Cambridge Institute of Criminology, Diamond was elected as the National Chair of Labour Students from May 1998 - April 1999. While attending Cambridge University, Diamond was Chair of the Cambridge University Labour Club during the 1997 general election.
Following a brief stint at Finsbury Financial Communications and the Institute for Public Policy Research, Diamond was appointed as Director of the Labour Party organization and magazine Progress. In late 2000, he was made Special Adviser to the then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Rt Hon Peter Mandelson MP.
In 2001 Diamond bid for election to Lambeth Council, though failed to win a seat in the Lambeth Council election, 2002. From June 2001-September 2004, Diamond was a member of the Number 10 Policy Unit with particular responsibility for the government’s public service reform agenda. In the run-up to the 2005 general election, Diamond worked as a special adviser to the election co-ordinator, Alan Milburn MP, leading the management of the Labour Party’s manifesto and preparation of the government’s third-term policy programme.
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