The Health Secretary Steve Barclay hired a self-proclaimed “famous lobbyist” with links to insurance and private healthcare as an adviser last year, in yet another example of the closeness between ministers, lobbyists and political advisers. Lionel Zetter worked as Barclay’s policy fellow at the Cabinet Office and later as his political adviser in the Department for Health and Social Care, from January to November. Simultaneously, though not illegally, he held two roles in the private sector.
He was vice-president of Public Affairs Asia, an organisation he helped to found and which describes itself as a “network for senior government relations, corporate affairs and corporate communications”; and also as director of the Enterprise Forum, an organisation founded for businesses to discuss policy with the government.
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