Baroness Nicola Blackwood.

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Politician and entrepreneur

Nicola is a leader in health innovation policy and entrepreneurship. She is Chair of Genomics England and a Member of the House of Lords Science & Technology Select Committee. Nicola served as Minister for Innovation in the Department for Health and Social Care (UK) under two Prime Ministers where she led on Lifesciences, NHS Data and Digital Transformation and Global Health Security. She was the first female MP for Oxford and she was elected by MPs of all parties to Chair the Commons Science and Technology Select Committee. Nicola remains the youngest ever select committee chair in British history and the only woman to have held in that position.

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Alan Johnson

MP and author

Alan’s childhood memoir This Boy was published by Bantam Press on 9th May 2013. It won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, and the Orwell Prize, Britain's top political writing award. His second volume of memoirs. Please Mr P...

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John Sergeant

Journalist and presenter

John Sergeant is a distinguished British journalist, author, and television presenter, renowned for his incisive reporting and wit. He began his career as a graduate trainee in 1966 with the Liverpool Echo before joining the BBC in 1970. Over four...

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Jonathan Haslam.

Former Downing Street communications director

Jonathan Haslam worked for six and a half years at the heart of John Major’s Downing Street. As the deputy and then Director of Communications he was ‘sources close to the Prime Minister’ and witnessed some of the most significant events in domest...

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