Rob

Rob Oxley, 35, will be be Special Advisor to Nadine Dorries at the DCMS. He's just back from honeymoon, after marrying Government press officer Stephanie Mann (who's off to spin for the Serious Fraud Office). 

He likes watching rugby union and American football (used to play defensive lineman for Sheffield Sabres and for London Olympians at Blackheath); he likes computer games. He started out from Sheffield University (Politics and International Relations) with Santander, then switched to being a Parliamentary Assistant, working for Brexiteer Anne Main. Sharper spinning followed with The Taxpayers' Alliance,  Business for Britain, and Vote Leave. He joined Priti Patel at DfID in 2016.

In 2018, Oxley took a break from politics to work in comms for Deliveroo, under George Osborne's inamorata, Thea Rogers, and returned as Press Secretary at No 10 in July 2019.

He's done some unintentional broadcasting, on Good Morning Britain. During the 2019 election campaign, he was heard to mutter “for fuck’s sake”, as he shielded Boris Johnson into a fridge at the Modern Milkman dairy in the Tory marginal of Pudsey. A GMB camera team was doorstepping Boris, while Piers Morgan shouted questions from their London studio. 

He was on camera again, in this coffee moment two years ago.

No caffeine for you prime minister. pic.twitter.com/zneHkziWKH

— Ashley Cowburn (@ashcowburn) October 1, 2019

 

In his most recent job, Rob probably wishes he could have kept Dominic Raab, in some form of cold storage.  Still, he seems a loyal kinda guy. 

Dom was a great boss & he remains the one of the most effective thing British politics has seen - Politicial special forces as one MP called him. Paul Stephenson was a bloody brilliant Comms director who many industry types loved to tell at the time how our comms was terrible.

— Robert Oxley (@roxley) January 7, 2019