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Article: Blair confidante quits Downing Street to join BP Prime Minister sad at loss of his `irreplaceable' adviser and friend whose desire for a new challenge has led her to work for oil giant
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 9, 2001
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ANJI HUNTER, one of Tony Blair's closest aides and confidantes,
left her job at Downing Street yesterday to become director of
communications at BP.
Ms Hunter, a close friend of Mr Blair since their schooldays in
Edinburgh, quit her pounds 100,000-a-year-plus job as Number 10's
director of government relations to join the oil company, where she
will almost certainly increase her salary. She will take up her post
at BP in February after serving a three-month "quarantine" period
recommended by Whitehall's watchdog on outside appointments.
Although her departure came suddenly yesterday, Ms Hunter has been
talking to BP for several months. Aged 46, she told friends she
believed she had "one ...