Patrick Diamond

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Patrick Diamond (born 1974) is a British policy advisor, author and historian connected with the Labour Party.

At present, he is the director of Policy Network, an international progressive politics thinktank and a senior visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics. Previously, he served as a special advisor and member of Prime Minister Tony Blair's policy unit from 2001.

From 2000 to 2001, he was a special advisor to then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Peter Mandelson, and had been connected to Mandelson's Hartlepool seat when he became a European Commissioner. Prior to entering British politics, Diamond worked in London as a fellow of the Institute for Public Policy Research. 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 Labour Students, winning election in 1998. He has been recently tipped by The Evening Standard to run for Tony Blair's Sedgefield seat after the PM steps down from office.