Known as the ‘great survivor’ in Downing Street, Jeremy Heywood worked for Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and now David Cameron and has done tours of duty at both No10 and No11. He’s the most senior civil servant in the land and as the Permanent Secretary for No 10 (the first to hold this role) he’s in Cabinet and in any other meeting he wants to be. Cameron turns to him all the time not least because he had decided against having a major political operation at his disposal when he became PM in 2010. That’s now changed and there are more special advisers than ever before, but Jeremy Heywood is still more important than any of them.
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Jeremy Heywood
Known as the ‘great survivor’ in Downing Street, Jeremy Heywood worked for Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and now David Cameron and has done tours of duty at both No10 and No11. He’s the most senior civil servant in the land and as the Permanent Secretary for No 10 (the first to hold this role) he’s … Continued
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