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Is There a Precedent in Westminster?

Lord Frost went from ambassador to Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary. He then ran the Scotch Whiskey Association before being put in House of Lords. Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's chief of staff, had been a diplomat before he did that job. But it's not like Jonathan Powell was running the Labour election campaign. Other people did that in 1997.

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