>Her LinkedIn page reveals a long list of roles with Tory party affiliates, including the forums officer at the Conservative Women’s Organisation, which represents the party’s female members, and an executive committee member at the Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Council. According to CFCC’s website, it aims to “provide a forum for discussion of international relations to promote greater understanding and awareness globally, on a not for profit basis”.
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>Bogdan has had stints with the Conservative Friends of India, where she was an executive board member, and Cambridge Conservatives as secretary and vice chair. She studied at Cambridge University, Harvard, SOAS, Kings’ College London, and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
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>These roles have afforded Bogdan in-person access to Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ), where she met the Prime Minister’s father Stanley Johnson, Health Secretary Sajid Javid, former cabinet minister Malcolm Rifkind and one-time mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey, among others, her social media posts show.
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>They also show that Bogdan has participated in virtual meetings with Chancellor Rishi Sunak and COP26 President Alok Sharma.
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>She has also attended the exclusive Carlton Club, founded in the 19th Century as the original home of the party before the days of Conservative Central Office, where she met former US ambassador to the UK Woody Johnson.
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>Her Instagram posts suggest she was there on so-called Brexit Day, to celebrate the moment the UK formally left the European Union.
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>One source said: “She’s an intelligent woman with a lot of degrees, but has little or no discernible employment history [outside the party] in the UK.
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>”It is puzzling that she dedicates so much of her energies to friends of groups of a… political party that happens to be the party of government.
I look forward to Newsnight running an image of Johnson in an ushanka hat against a background of the Kremlin as they did Corbyn, seeing as Johnsons links to Russian money are a lot less tenuous
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>Her LinkedIn page reveals a long list of roles with Tory party affiliates, including the forums officer at the Conservative Women’s Organisation, which represents the party’s female members, and an executive committee member at the Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Council. According to CFCC’s website, it aims to “provide a forum for discussion of international relations to promote greater understanding and awareness globally, on a not for profit basis”.
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>Bogdan has had stints with the Conservative Friends of India, where she was an executive board member, and Cambridge Conservatives as secretary and vice chair. She studied at Cambridge University, Harvard, SOAS, Kings’ College London, and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
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>These roles have afforded Bogdan in-person access to Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ), where she met the Prime Minister’s father Stanley Johnson, Health Secretary Sajid Javid, former cabinet minister Malcolm Rifkind and one-time mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey, among others, her social media posts show.
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>They also show that Bogdan has participated in virtual meetings with Chancellor Rishi Sunak and COP26 President Alok Sharma.
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>She has also attended the exclusive Carlton Club, founded in the 19th Century as the original home of the party before the days of Conservative Central Office, where she met former US ambassador to the UK Woody Johnson.
>
>Her Instagram posts suggest she was there on so-called Brexit Day, to celebrate the moment the UK formally left the European Union.
[…]
>One source said: “She’s an intelligent woman with a lot of degrees, but has little or no discernible employment history [outside the party] in the UK.
>
>”It is puzzling that she dedicates so much of her energies to friends of groups of a… political party that happens to be the party of government.
I look forward to Newsnight running an image of Johnson in an ushanka hat against a background of the Kremlin as they did Corbyn, seeing as Johnsons links to Russian money are a lot less tenuous