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Catherine Susan "Kate" Fall, Baroness Fall (born 1967) is a British peer and political advisor. She served as Deputy Chief of Staff for David Cameron when he was prime minister and became a life peer in September 2015.

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Early life

Born in 1967, [1] Fall is the daughter of Sir Brian Fall, a former British Ambassador to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and has an identical twin, Melanie. She was educated at Cobham Hall, Kent, King's School, Canterbury, and St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she met Cameron while both were studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics. [2]

Career

Fall worked with George Osborne at the Conservative Research Department, [3] and became one of the Notting Hill set. [4] She was reported to be Osborne's girlfriend during the 1990s. [5] In 2001 she acted as Cameron's advisor for his first election campaign in the Oxfordshire parliamentary constituency of Witney. [6] She also worked for a Conservative Member of the European Parliament and for the Confederation of British Industry. [7] She then worked in Michael Howard's business liaison unit, during his leadership of the Conservative Party and of the Opposition, [4] before becoming a director of the think-tank The Atlantic Partnership.[ citation needed ] She became Cameron's private office secretary after he was elected in 2005 to replace Howard as the Leader of the Conservative Party.

When Cameron became prime minister in May 2010, he appointed Conservative advisor Edward Llewellyn Downing Street Chief of Staff and created the role of Downing Street Deputy Chief of Staff, with responsibility for supporting the Chief of Staff, a position he gave to Fall, [8] with a salary of £100,000. [9] In 2011, Fall was ranked by the Evening Standard as one of the 100 most influential people in London. [10] Briefed to keep Cameron "punctual and punctilious", by 2012 she had been nicknamed "The Gatekeeper". [11] She was nominated for a life peerage in Cameron's Dissolution Honours List in August 2015, [12] gazetted in September 2015. [13] The next year she became a senior adviser to the Brunswick Group. [1]

In March 2020, Fall published a memoir of her time in government, The Gatekeeper: Life at the Heart of Number 10. [14] Writing in the Evening Standard, Julian Glover declared this to be the book of the week. [15]

Honours

On 22 October 2015, she was created Baroness Fall, of Ladbroke Grove in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, for life. [16]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Fall, Baroness, (Catherine Susan Fall), Senior Adviser, Brunswick Group" in Who's Who 2017 (London: A. & C. Black, 2017)
  2. ↑ Andrew Rawnsley (5 July 2009). "Oh no. Not another one who wants to be in the West Wing". The Observer . Retrieved 19 August 2012.
  3. ↑ Alex Barker (23 February 2010). "How Cameron emerged from the shadows" . Financial Times . Archived from the original on 4 March 2023. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
  4. 1 2 "Cameron's inner circle". The Daily Telegraph . 1 October 2006. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
  5. ↑ Vincent Moss, "The ex factor: George Osborne's former girlfriend has top role at number 10: Kate Fall dated the Chancellor when they worked together in the 1990s", The Daily Mirror , 14 October 2012
  6. ↑ Tim Walker (3 January 2012). "Rebekah Brooks is left out in the cold at David Cameron's New Year's party". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 19 August 2012.
  7. ↑ Billen, Andrew. "From David Cameron to Dominic Cummings: the view from No 10 by Kate Fall" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  8. ↑ Rogers, Simon (13 June 2010). "Government special advisers: the full list as a spreadsheet". The Guardian. London.
  9. ↑ Christopher Hope (17 July 2012). "Number of special advisers employed by David Cameron and Nick Clegg soars". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 19 August 2012.
  10. ↑ "London's 1000 most influential people 2011: Politics". London Evening Standard . 7 November 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
  11. ↑ Ed Caeser (10 December 2005). "Dave's babes: the women in Cameron's inner circle". The Independent . Retrieved 19 August 2012.
  12. ↑ "Dissolution Peerages 2015". Gov.uk. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  13. ↑ "No. 61359". The London Gazette (Supplement). 22 September 2015. p. 17613.
  14. ↑ Robert Shrimsley (23 March 2020). "The Gatekeeper: Life At The Heart Of Number 10" . The Financial Times. Archived from the original on 4 March 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  15. ↑ Julian Glover, "Book of the week: The Gatekeeper by Kate Fall Cameron’s rise and fall — by the woman who kept watch", Evening Standard, 12 March 2020
  16. ↑ "No. 61393". The London Gazette . 28 October 2015. p. 21142.
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