Henry Newman

Henry Newman is a British political adviser. He is an adviser to Michael Gove, having formerly been a senior adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Francis Maude. He also served as a councillor on Camden London Borough Council. Early life Newman's grandmothers were an Istanbul-born Greek, and a German Jew who fled the Nazis, before training as a doctor at the Royal Free Hospital. Newman was an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford. He later studied at Harvard University and the London School of Economics. Career Newman taught politics and history at various universities, including politics at SOAS University of London, before working in Whitehall under Prime Minister David Cameron during the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition. He worked on Government efficiency and prison reform and was promoted through various roles as a special adviser. Newman worked for Francis Maude at the Cabinet Office. He joined Michael Gove at the Ministry of Justice in 2015. Newman was a special adviser to Gove, and was reported to have been a protégé of Gove. Newman worked on the Vote Leave campaign in the run-up to the 2016 EU referendum. He was said to have helped convince Gove to withdraw his support for Boris Johnson during the 2016 Conservative Party leadership election and run himself. Under Prime Minister Theresa May, he joined and was director of the think tank Open Europe, being seen as an influential supporter of May's Brexit plan.