Crux of the Matter

In Conversation with Simon Lewis OBE: A mindset for crisis response


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Simon Lewis has a long and storied career in public relations, with contemporaries regarding him as one of the country’s top PR men.  His career has spanned both the private andpublic sectors.  After a career in the city working as Director of Corporate Affairs at Vodafone, Centrica and NatWest he moved to Number 10 as Director of Communications under Gordon Brown. In 1998, he was appointed as the first Communications Secretary to the late Queen.

He now runs his own PR advisory and presents the popular BBC Podcast ‘When it hits the fan’ with the former Sun editor David Yelland.



The conversation weaves through Simon's varied high-level experiences in PR - at No. 10 Downing Street under then Prime Minister Gordon Brown, at Buckingham Palace after the death of Princess Diana and in the corporate world.

Simon reflects on these experiences to

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Crux of the MatterBy Astraea