Question: In what political role did the politican who Alistair Beaton worked as a speechwriter for, serve in the Blair Government? 
Sentence (from "A Planet for the President"): Eventually persuaded by his aides to "think the unthinkable", the President in the novel, Fletcher J. Fletcher, greenlights drastic measures to stop environmental destruction and to secure for himself a place in history as the saviour of the earth.
Relevant evidence: No