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Nick Griffin

Nick Griffin (born 01 March 1959, Barnet) was Chairman of the British National Party from 1999-2014 and an MEP for North West England from 2009-2014. He was replaced as Chairman of the BNP by Adam Walker in July 2014Cahal Milmo, 'Nick Griffin quits as BNP leader: Banned schoolteacher Adam Walker appointed as chairman as party founders', The Independent, 21 July 2014. and lost his MEP seat in May 2014, receiving less than 2% of votes cast in the North West at the European election.Camilla Turner, 'BNP leader Nick Griffin loses seat as MEP', The Telegraph, 26 May 2014. Griffin was expelled from the BNP in October 2014 after being accused of trying to "destabilise" the party and "harassing" party members.'Nick Griffin expelled by BNP', BBC, 2 October 2014.
==Affiliations==
*Member, Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
*Member, Delegation for relations with Belarus
*Member, Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly
*Substitute, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
*Substitute, Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee
==Record and Controversies==
===Declaration of Financial Interests===
*Salaried employee of British National Party until Election 4th June 2009. Paid until end of same month but not thereafter.European Parliament, Declaration of Members' Financial Interests: Nick Griffin, 16 June 2009, accessed 03 November 2009.
===Record of Parliamentary Votes===
==Personal Information==
===Curriculum Vitae===
*Law degree, MA (Hons.), Cantab.
*Elected leader of the British National Party (1999- ).
===Contact===	
:Address:
:Parlement européen
:Bât. Altiero Spinelli
:03F266
:60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60
:B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel
:Phone:
:+32 (0)2 28 45772
:Fax
:+32 (0)2 28 49772
:Email:
:nick.griffin AT europarl.europa.eu
:Website: 
:http://www.bnp.org.uk
==Resources==
*European Parliament, Declaration of Members' Financial Interests: Nick Griffin, 16 June 2009, accessed 03 November 2009.
*European Parliament, MEP Directory: Nick Griffin, accessed 03 November 2009.
*European Parliament, MEP Directory: Nick Griffin, accessed 17 November 2010.
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Nick Hargrave

Nick Hargrave has been 'campaigns director' at lobbying firm Portland Communications since September 2017. He was formerly a special adviser to British prime minister Theresa May (from August 2016 - June 2017). 
Prior to that, Hargrave served as a speechwriter for David Cameron, and was head of opposition research for the Conservative Party’s 2015 General Election campaign. He then briefly worked as an 'elections consultant' for a number of overseas political parties. King's lecture, Royal Grammar School, accessed 12 December 2016. 
Hargrave previously worked for Portland Communications. David Singleton, Lobbyists line up for Tory spad jobs, PublicAffairs, 31 August 2016, accessed 6 December 2016. 
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Nick Harvey

Nick Harvey was the Liberal Democrats member of Parliament (MP) for Devon North from 1992 to 2015. He was appointed Minister for the Armed Forces at the UK Ministry of Defence in May 2010.Full list of new cabinet ministers and other government appointments, guardian.co.uk, 13 May 2010. He left the Government in September 2012.Cabinet reshuffle: Lansley replaced by Hunt in health job, BBC News, 4 September 2012.
Harvey lost his seat in the 2015 general election to the Conservative Party's Peter Heaton-Jones by 6,936 votes. BBC News Devon North, accessed 15 May 2015.
==Background==
Born in 1961 at Chandler's Ford, Hampshire, Harvey was educated at Queen's College, Taunton and Middlesex University.Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Nick Harvey, Ministry of Defence, accessed 14 May 2010.
Mr Harvey worked in communications and marketing from 1983 – 1992, mainly for the City consultants, Citigate Dewe Rogerson and entered the House of Commons as Liberal Democrat MP for North Devon in 1992.
He was the Liberal Democrats Shadow Defence Secretary from 2006 to 2010.
==Affiliations==
*All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group
*CentreForum - Trustee
*UK Defence Forum - Patron
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Nick Hillman

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Nick Hillman was chief of staff to minister of state for universities and science David Willetts between 2010-2013.Department of Information Services, "Parliamentary Information List", accessed 07.09.10 He is now director of the Higher Education Policy Institute. Q&A with Nick Hillman accessed 8/914 
==Background==
According to a 2010 biography:
Thirty-eight year old Hillman studied as a postgraduate at Christ’s College, Cambridge. He worked for five years as a teacher, and a further four years working for pension companies.Nick Hillman, "About me", accessed 13.09.10 From 2000 to 2003, Hillman was the Senior Research Officer to David Willetts MP. 
Hillman stood in the 2010 general election as Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the Conservative Party in Cambridge for the 2010 General Election.Nick Hillman, "About me", accessed 13.09.10 If elected, he stated in his Declarations of Interests that he would stand down from his post as special adviser. However, with 12,829 votes he failed to defeat the Lib Dem candidate Julian Huppert who held the Cambridge seat for the Liberal Democrats having received 19,621 votes.Cambridge News, "General election results", accessed 13.09.10
Hillman declares an "irregular income" from "writing articles and pamphlets for journals, magazines and think tanks".Nick Hillman, "Declarations of Interests", accessed 13.09.10 These include Politeia, Centre for Policy Studies and the Bow Group. The coalition special advisers, Civil Service World, (the newspaper for the senior civil service) 7th April 2011, accessed 5 October 2011 From 2003 to 2007 he was a Policy Adviser on pensions at the Association of British Insurers,Nicholas Hillman, "Encouraging pension saving and extending choice: The past, present and future of contracting out", Association of British Insurers, April 2007, accessed 13.09.10 and was previously a Research Fellow at neoconservative think tank the Policy Exchange. He sat on the Centre for Social Justice's Economic Dependency Group.Staff writers, "Nick Hillman", The Telegraph, accessed 13.09.10
==In defence of special advisers==
In 2014, he wrote an essay entitled 'In Defence of Special Advisers: Lessons from Personal Experience' for the Institute for Government. Institute for Government Institute for Government accessed 23 September 2014 
==Contact, Resources, Notes==
===Contact===
Address: Nick Hillman PPC
Cambridge City Conservatives
153 St Neots Road
Hardwick
Cambridge, CB3 7QJ
Website: http://nickhillman.co.uk/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/nickhillman
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Nick Hopkinson

Nick Hopkinson is a former senior officer at GCHQ. After leaving government he joined Computer Science Commission and Northrop Grunman.
==Career==
Hopkinson was chief information officer at GCHQ between February 2004 and February 2008, when he became director general information security. Nick Hopkinson Linkedin, accessed 9 December 2014 
In August 2010 he was appointed director of cyber security in the Europe, Middle East and Asia at Computer Science Commission. The role was approved by ACOBA "subject to a waiting period of 6 months from his last day of service and the condition that, for 12 months from the same date, he should not become personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer". Twelfth Report 2010-2011 Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, accessed 9 December 2014 
In August 2014 he became UK strategy director at aerospace and defence technology company Northrop Grumman.
==Education==
*BA History, University of Cambridge 1976 – 1979
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Nick Hurd

Nick Hurd has been the Conservative Party member of Parliament (MP) for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner since 2010. He was previously MP for Ruislip and Northwood from 2005 to 2010. He was appointed a Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office in 2010.Mr Nick Hurd, www.parliament.uk, accessed 24 August 2013. He left the Government in July 2014.Reshuffle at-a-glance: In, out and moved about, BBC News, 15 July 2014.
In the 2015 general election, Hurd retained his seat with 60 percent of the vote and a majority of 20,224. Nick Hurd Express, accessed 15 May 2015 
==Background==
Hurd is the son of Douglas Hurd, Conservative MP for Mid Oxfordshire 1974-83 and Witney 1983-97; the grandson of Sir Anthony Hurd, Conservative MP for Newbury 1945-64; and the great-grandson of Sir Percy Hurd, Conservative MP for Frome 1918-23 and Devizes 1924-45.Sarah Priddy, PIL: Current Members Related to Other Current or Former Members - Commons Library Standard Note, 13 September 2013.
==Stance on fracking==
In January 2017, Hurd said before the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee that 'we owe it to ourselves' [the UK] to attempt to produce shale gas as successfully as the US has, and that 'it would be irresponsible to future generations not to answer the question can we do it' for reasons of energy insecurity. Ben Webster, Climate minister backs fracking The Times, 11 January 2017, accessed 11 January 2017. 
==Staff==
*Sophie Bowles 
*Jill Brown 
*Rhiannon Glover - Late duty press officer, Conservative Party 
*Rebecca Gray Register of interests of members' secretaries and research assistants, 23 March 2016, parliament.uk, accessed 20 April 2016
==Affiliations==
*Smart Cities All-Party Parliamentary Group - Vice Chair
*All-Party Parliamentary Group on Corporate Responsibility - Vice-chairCorporate Responsibility APPG, www,parliament.uk, accessed 18 November 2015
*All-Party Parliamentary Group on Financial Technology - Vice-chairRegister of 29 September 2015,www.parliament.uk, accessed 16 October 2016 
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Nick Jenkins

Nicholas David Jenkins (born May 1967)Nicholas David Jenkins, 'Companies House', Accessed 25-9-2016 is the founder of Moonpig.
==Career==
Having saved £750,000.00 at his job in Russia with sugar traders Glencore, Jenkins started gift card company Moonpig in 1999 Sara Rizk Moonpig: Nick Jenkins Startups, 13 October 2009, accessed 3 April 2015 with the help of £2 million from 18 angel investors. 
By 2011 the company were employing 100 staff and selling 12 million cards a year, Jenkins sold the company for £100 million. How did they do it Q&A: Nick Jenkins, Moonpig.com, accessed 3 April 2015.
==Letter to the Telegraph==
On 1 April 2015 Jenkins was one of 103 business leaders who wrote to the Telegraph praising the British Conservative Party's economic policies and claiming a Labour government would 'threaten jobs and deter investment' in the UK.Peter Dominiczak, 100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery, Telegraph, 3 April 2015.
Recorded by the Electoral Commission: Electoral Commission, Donation Search, accessed 9 April 2015 
Date
Name of donor
Amount
Donated to
Subsidiary (parties only)
05/03/2009
Nicholas Jenkins
£2,500.00
Conservative Party
Hammersmith
30/06/2009
Nicholas Jenkins
£2,000.00
Conservative Party
Central Party
22/03/2011
Nicholas D Jenkins
£20,000.00
No Campaign Limited
26/04/2011
Nicholas D Jenkins
£2,000.00
No Campaign Limited
30/06/2011
Nicholas D Jenkins	
£102,000.00
Conservative Party
Central Party
20/09/2011
Nicholas D Jenkins
£10,000.00
Conservative Party
Central Party
07/12/2011
Nicholas D Jenkins
£5,000.00
Conservative Party]
Central Party
10/02/2012
Nicholas D Jenkins
£10,000.00
Conservative Party
Central party
28/11/2012
Nicholas D Jenkins
£25,000.00
Conservative Party
Central Party
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Nick Joicey

Nick Joicey became the director general for strategy, international and biosecurity at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in January 2014. Nick Joicey GOV.UK, accessed 22 April 2015 
Prior to joining this department, he was director for international finance at the HM Treasury. 
He is married to Labour MP Rachel Reeves.
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Nick Kaldas

Nick Kaldas is Assistant Commissioner of the New South Wales Police with responsibility for Counter Terrorism and Special Tactics Command.
==Biography==
Kaldas moved to Australia from Egypt when he was 12 and grew up in western Sydney. He speaks fluent Arabic. Kaldas graduated from the Police Academy in 1981 and subsequently spent over 10 years as a Police Hostage Negotiator. He completed the F.B.I. Hostage Negotiators Course in Quantico, Virginia in 1996 and holds a Masters Degree in Public Policy and Administration.Speaker Profile from the Australian Security Industry Association (accessed 5 June 2008) In January 2004 Kaldas was seconded to the Australian Federal Government and deployed to Iraq, initially as Senior Police Adviser, National Operations, then as Deputy Chief Police Adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority.Speaker Profile from the Australian Security Industry Association (accessed 5 June 2008)
Upon his return to NSW Police he took up position of Commander, Gangs Squad, State Crime Command 2004-2005. In late 2005 he was again seconded to the Commonwealth and redeployed to Iraq to carry out an assessment of the Iraqi Special Tribunal, (Regime War Crimes, the body tasked with prosecuting Saddam Hussein and his senior cadre of officials) and then formulated recommendations for a training package to be offered by the Australian Government. In January 2004 Kaldas was seconded to the Australian Federal Government and deployed to Iraq, initially as Senior Police Adviser, National Operations, then as Deputy Chief Police Adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority.Speaker Profile from the Australian Security Industry Association (accessed 5 June 2008)
In March 2006 Kaldas was promoted to the rank of assistant commissioner (counter terrorism and public order management). He began his new task by saying a terrorist attack in Australia was likely.Andrew Clennell, 'Gang squad chief takes up terrorism command', The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 March 2006
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Nick King

Nick King is a lobbyist at Hanover Communications and a former special adviser(spad) to Sajid Javid, the UK Conservative government's communities secretary and former business secretary. 
King's role as a spad combined a mix of policy development and advice, communications handling and political support. Nick King British Council, accessed 16 October 2014 King was originally hired by Britain's culture secretary Maria Miller in 2012. 
King’s experience in the different sectors is extensive, having worked as a policy adviser, a political and communications consultant and a sponsorship and marketing consultant in the past. 
==Background==
King previously worked at Conservative Central Office between 2009 and 2010, where he worked in the research department, covering culture, media and sport issues.
During this period he advised Jeremy Hunt MP, with a focus on policy development and political campaigning. He also worked on publications including the Conservative Party's sports manifesto for the 2010 general election. Matt Cartmell Culture Secretary Maria Miller appoints Hanover's Nick King as special adviser, PR Week, 5 October 2012, accessed 19 September 2014. 
Before working as a political aide, King worked at heavyweight lobbying firm Hanover as an senior account director (2012). Andrew Pierce Will Murdoch move backfire on top Tory? The Daily Mail, 14 October 2012, accessed 8 October 2014 
Controversially King is believed to have been briefed on details of BSkyB's lobbying operation. Rajeev Syal, Tory party's News Corp links face fresh scrutiny over lobbyist's role The Guardian, 14 November 2014, accessed 8 October 2014 
King previously worked for lobbying firm Heathcroft Communications (2010-12)Nick King, Linkedin profile, accessed July 2016
King worked with Javid from 2012 at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, BIS and then Defra. In 2014 King was paid an annual salary of £66,000. Special advisers in post, 30 November 2014 GOV.UK, accessed 30 April 2015 
==Notes and references==
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Nick Kuenssberg

Nick Kuenssberg is the Non-executive Chairman of Iomart Group plc. He is also Chairman of GAP Group Ltd,Canmore Partnership Ltd, Scottish Networks International, Keronite plc,eTourism Ltd and The Glasgow School of Art. He is Director of Chamberlin & Hill plc, RingProp plc and Amino Technologies plc.Scottish Environment Protection Agency Agency Board : Members : Biographical DetailsIomart Group plc Company Officers
Kuenssberg was previously chairman of Stoddard International plc, Dynacast International Ltd and David A Hall Ltd and has held directorships in Coats Viyella plc, Dawson International plc, ScottishPower plc, Standard Life Assurance Co. and other companies. He was also formerly a Visiting Professor at Strathclyde Business School and chairman of the Institute of Directors, Scotland and a member of the Secretary of State for Scotland's Advisory Group on Sustainable Development from 1996 to 1999. He has been a Board member of the Scottish Legal Aid Board since 1996 for which he receives an annual remuneration of £7,600.Scottish Executive 2007; News; 31/01/2003 New deputy chair for environment agency
Kuenssberg was appointed Deputy Chair of the Board of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) in January 2003.Scottish Executive 2007; News; 31/01/2003 New deputy chair for environment agency
==Labour donor==
Reportedly Kuenssberg gave £995 to the campaign to elect Wendy Alexander as leader of the Scottish Labour Party, just under the £1,000 limit which would have to be declared:
:Nick Kuenssberg, a Glasgow businessman and also the part-time deputy chairman of the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency, was also a donor and is thought to have given £995 to the campaign.Donorgate - the who, what and why of a political storm PAUL GREEN, The Scotsman, 4/12/2007
==Affiliations==
*Trustee David Hume Institute 1996-2006 (at least)Nick Kuenssberg and Gillian Lomas (Eds) The David Hume Institute: The First Decade, Edinburgh: The David Hume Institute, 1996.
== References ==
Nick Leslau

Nick Leslau is the chairman of Prestbury Investment Holdings Limited 
==Career==
Leslau has previously worked been the CEO of Burford Group; the owner of Chartsearch; and founder of Maybeat Limited, investment vehicle Edenhawk and Max Property Group. A number of his businesses have merged with Prestbury Group plc, Knutsford plc and Blackstone. Kenny Kemp How the Westway was won by tycoon Sunday Herald, 10 February 2002, accessed 3 April 2015. Nick Leslau Nick Leslau: 'I'm rich, but does anyone like me?' Telegraph, 19 Aug 2008, accessed 3 April 2015. Kasmira Jefford Nick Leslau sells Max Property Group to Blackstone for £448m City AM, 23 July 2014, accessed 3 April 2015.
He is currently the chairman of Prestbury Investment Holdings Limited, who have a £4 billion property portfolio, including four of the UK's largest entertainment complexes Alton Towers, Thorpe Park, Warwick Castle and Madame Tussauds. David Prosser Merlin sells Alton Towers in £622m deal Independent, 18 July 2007, accessed 3 April 2015.
==Letter to the Telegraph==
On 1 April 2015 Leslau was one of 103 business leaders who wrote to the Telegraph praising the British Conservative Party's economic policies and claiming a Labour government would 'threaten jobs and deter investment' in the UK.Peter Dominiczak, 100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery, Telegraph, 3 April 2015.
==Political donations==
Recorded by the Electoral Commission: Electoral Commission, Donation Search, accessed 3 April 2015.
Date
Name of donor
Amount
Donated to
Subsidiary (parties only)
13/11/2009
Nick Leslau
£12,500.00
The Rt Hon William Hague MP
10/08/2011
Nick Leslau
£2,000.00
Mr Michael Gove MP
24/01/2012
Nicholas Leslau
£10,000.00
Conservative Party
Central Party
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Nick Mabey

According to his biography on the E3G website:
:Nick Mabey is a Founding Director and the Chief Executive of E3G. Until December 2005 he was a senior advisor in the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit leading work on a variety of policy areas, including energy, fisheries, unstable states and organised crime.
:Nick was previously Head of Sustainable Development in the FCO’s Environment Policy department, and the FCO lead on the Johannesburg Summit where he was responsible for establishing a number of innovative international partnerships including REEEP and the Travel Foundation.
:An economist and engineer by training, before he joined government Nick was Head of Economics and Development at WWF-UK. He came to WWF from academic research at London Business School on the economics of climate change, published in the book “Argument in the Greenhouse”. This followed research at MIT into energy system planning and a period in the energy industry working for PowerGen and GEC Alsthom. Nick trained as a mechanical engineer at Bristol University specialising in energy systems, and holds a masters degree in Technology and Policy from MIT.
:Among other appointments Nick currently sits on the East-West Institute’s International Task Force on Preventive Diplomacy, the Advisory Committee for the Energy, Environment and Development programme at Chatham House, and the Centre For Computational Finance and Economic Agents, University of Essex.'E3G, "Nick Mabey", E3G profiles page. Accessed 13/02/09
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Nick Miles

Nick Miles is the co-founder of Montfort Communications with Hugh Morrison. Miles and Morrison have also worked together at M:Communications and Financial Dynamics.
==Career==
Between 1992 and 2002, Miles was the chairman and chief executive of Financial Dynamics (now FTI Consulting). Linkedin Nick Miles, accessed 2 July 2015. After Miles and Morrison were put on six months' 'gardening leave' in January 2002, the pair filed claims under the Public Interest Disclosure Act or the 'whistleblowers charter' against FD parent company Cordiant Communications and threatened to sue for £5 million. Frank Kane and Conal Walsh PR duo set to blow whistle on Cordiant Guardian, 10 March 2002, accessed 2 July 2015. After an out of court settlement, both Miles and Morrison withdrew their claims and legal action. Jennifer Whitehead Sacked Cordiant pair drop legal action Brand Republic, 26 March 2002, accessed 2 July 2015. 
In September 2002 Miles and Morrison founded M:Communications together. In 2008, the business was acquired by US vehicle King Worldwide backed by The Riverside Company, a private equity firm. Linkedin Hugh Morrison, accessed 2 July 2015. In February 2013 Miles and Morrison resigned from M:C and were put on a twelve month gardening leave period Alec Mattinson M:Communications founders on 12-month gardening leave PR Week, 11 April 2013, accessed 2 July 2015. and in August M:C announced they were in a winding-down period and would close within weeks. Alec Mattinson M:Communications to close its doors 'within weeks' PR Week, 5 August 2013, accessed 2 July 2015.
In 2014 Miles and Morrison founded Montfort Communications, a communications company focusing on corporate reputation. The Mayfair-based company are led by Miles, Morrison and former MHP Communications executive chairman Gay Collins.
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