Patrick Diamond

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Patrick Diamond (Born 1975) is a British policy advisor, author and historian connected with the Labour Party.

Patrick Diamond is currently on sabbatical leave from Downing Street where he served as a special advisor and member of Prime Minister Tony Blair's policy unit since 2001. He is at present a senior visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics as well as the Acting Director of the Policy Network, an international progressive politics thinktank.

From 2000 to 2001, he was a special advisor to then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Peter Mandelson. Prior to entering British politics, Mr. Diamond worked in London as a fellow of the Institute for Public Policy Research. Mr. Diamond has written widely on contemporary politics and is a regular contributor to European dailies like The Guardian. He is co-author with Anthony Giddens of The New Egalitarianism (Polity, 2005) and also edited New Labour's Old Roots (Polity, 2004) a study of the revisionist social democratic tradition within the Labour Party.

Patrick Diamond is also a former National Chair of the National Organisation of Labour Students, winning election in 1998. He has also been recently tipped by The Evening Standard to run for Tony Blair's Sedgefield seat after the PM steps down from office.