Special Advisers. Special advisers are temporary civil servants, employed for the duration of an administration to provide a political dimension to the non-partisan work of the general civil service.

There are numerous factors that influence public trust in government, one in particular is the relationship with people in power and lobby groups. Some of the recent scandals that have damaged public ...

Dozens of special advisers to the last Conservative government now work as lobbyists and consultants for oil giants, banks, pharmaceutical firms and other private companies. openDemocracy’s ...

An annual report on special advisers, published on Thursday ahead of summer recess, detailed £2.9 million in severance as part of a total pay bill of £15.9 million between April 2022 and March 2023.

Dozens of special advisers to the last Conservative government now work as lobbyists and consultants for oil giants, banks, pharmaceutical firms and other private companies. openDemocracy’s ...

The Welsh Government has paid £1.7m for their special advisers for the year up until April this year, more than double what it paid a year earlier. Wales' First Minister Eluned Morgan revealed ...

No cog in the machinery of power - prime minister, cabinet, civil service, special advisers, MPs, independent experts - is emerging with their reputation intact from the hearings at the COVID inquiry.

Therefore, around 54% of former special advisers revolve into some kind of broadly defined lobbying role after they leave government. The post-government life of special advisers, 1997-2017 ...