Boris Johnson is claimed to have tapped up the fierce Australian former non-public secretary to the Queen - who give up after being put below alleged 'excessive stress' by Meghan Markle and Prince Harry - to grow to be his Downing Road 'gatekeeper' and carry order to No 10.
Samantha Cohen, who relished her soubriquet 'Samantha the Panther' due to her no-nonsense strategy at work, is claimed to be being wooed by the Prime Minister to regulate who has entry to the Tory chief.
Mr Johnson has began a bonfire of his senior aides as he fights for his political life as a result of party-mad tradition in Downing Road throughout lockdown.
Mrs Cohen, a mother-of-three who labored for the royals for 18 years, is claimed to have been approached for a Director of Authorities Relations position additionally managing the PM's diary - a submit not stuffed since David Cameron was in energy.
Whereas working at Buckingham Palace she loved a meteoric rise from junior press officer to the Queen's assistant non-public secretary in simply eight years. She was then parachuted in to Kensington Palace to assist Meghan Markle navigate via her first months as a royal after marrying Harry in 2018.
However the transfer to assist the Sussexes would finish in acrimony for the powerful Aussie, described by associates and colleagues as 'utterly devoted to the Royal Household'.
Initially from Brisbane, Ms Cohen had deliberate to give up Buckingham Palace in 2018 however agreed to remain on to assist Meghan. However she left in 2019 amid claims of bullying of workers by the Duchess of Sussex. One supply on the time stated that she had been 'handled terribly'. Meghan has all the time denied she was a bully - blaming smears from Buckingham Palace workers.
Samantha was one of many 'Palace 4′ - Jason Knauf, Christian Jones, Mrs Cohen and Sara Latham - who have been witnesses to her involvement within the analysis behind Discovering Freedom, the explosive guide concerning the Sussexes' determination to give up as senior royals and to migrate to Canada after which Los Angeles.
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Mrs Cohen went to work for the environmental charity Cool Earth - and is now chief government of the Commonwealth enterprise and funding council.
Boris Johnson has approached her for the No 10 'gatekeeper' job, in keeping with The Instances, however she is but to decide.
She is well-known to Simon Case, the present cupboard secretary who beforehand labored for William and Kate. Mr Case's place may very well be in jeopardy after he was linked to one of many lockdown events.
And Sam's mentor was Lord Geidt, as soon as the Queen's principal non-public secretary and now the PM's adviser on ministerial pursuits who has been busy with Boris and Carrie's wallpapergate scandal and the £112,000 spent on revamping the No 10 flat.
Theresa Might and Boris Johnson each selected to not have anybody within the Director of Authorities Relations or senior diary secretary roles.
David Cameron had Kate Fall, Gordon Brown had Sue Nye and Tony Blair had Anji Hunter, who have been all in command of their PM's time and who had entry to them.
Mrs Cohen may very well be employed in a civil service position, or a political position, if she have been to take it.
Though she left the royal family greater than two years in the past, she could have needed to be interviewed by palace HR about alleged bullying by Meghan.
Buckingham Palace introduced final yr that it might launch an investigation into allegations Meghan picked on a number of royal aides.
The probe, billed as an 'inside evaluation' by human assets, might hear proof from as much as ten royal aides who labored for the couple.
Previous and current workers might be invited to talk about their experiences, with the purpose to enhance human assets insurance policies on the palace and see if classes may be learnt.
Nonetheless, it has not but been confirmed who any of them could also be together with whether or not Ms Cohen will participate within the evaluation.
Meghan is accused of 'driving out' two PAs and shattering the arrogance of one other member of Kensington Palace workers - with one former aide branding Prince Harry and his spouse 'outrageous bullies' in keeping with a report in The Instances.
The newspaper reported that in October 2018 an official criticism was made by one among their most senior aides, Jason Knauf, then head of communications, who alleged that Meghan bullied two PA's 'out of the family' inside the area of a yr and was focusing on different feminine workers.
Mr Knauf stated in an e-mail leaked to The Instances he was additionally involved about Ms Cohen. One supply on the time stated that she had been 'handled terribly', regardless of staying in her job to assist the duchess.
She has by no means spoken out - however Mr Knauf indicated that she was experiencing excessive stress and stated: 'I questioned if the Family coverage on bullying and harassment applies to principals (the time period used to seek advice from a member of the royal household)'.
A part of the probe will study why his issues have been apparently not acted upon regardless of them being raised with a number of senior royal family workers on the time.
There are claims a few of the alleged tough behaviour occurred throughout Harry and Meghan's tour of Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga in October, 2018.
It additionally claimed the monarchy's 'males in grey fits' have been conscious of the purported actions of Meghan - however did 'completely nothing to guard folks'.
The couple have been allegedly 'outrageous bullies', with 'damaged' royal aides feeling 'humiliated', 'sick' and 'terrified' and even decreased to tears by the duchess.
Meghan has denied the allegations and accused the newspaper of being 'utilized by Buckingham Palace to hawk a completely false narrative primarily based on deceptive and dangerous misinformation' about her therapy of workers.
Her legal professionals stated the previous actress was 'saddened by this newest assault on her character, significantly as somebody who has been the goal of bullying herself and is deeply dedicated to supporting those that have skilled ache and trauma'.
Meghan and Harry have additionally accused the Queen's workers of orchestrating a 'calculated smear marketing campaign'. Palace sources slapped down the smear declare as completely 'disingenuous'.
A former NHS nurse was drafted into Downing Road final evening to grow to be probably the most senior civil servant at No 10. Skilled well being government Samantha Jones was appointed Downing Road's first Chief Working Officer as a part of Boris Johnson 's crew revamp.
It got here as former NHS nurse turned administrator Samantha Jones may even tackle the position of interim everlasting secretary for Boris. However it's understood she might be within the job for simply six months till somebody is discovered to fill it longer-term.
Miss Jones, 50, a married mom of twins, has a wealth of expertise with each the NHS and personal well being corporations.
She certified as a nurse in 1989 and began her profession on the world-famous Nice Ormond Road Hospital for youngsters in London.
However she quickly moved into well being administration, turning into the chief government of Epsom and St Helier NHS Belief in south London and of West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Belief. Miss Jones additionally had a two-year stint as a director of care methods at NHS England.
She has labored within the non-public sector as nicely, most not too long ago because the chief government of Operose Well being.
The agency, which is the UK arm of American medical insurance large Centene, final yr purchased out AT Medics, a big group of GP practices in London.
In April Miss Jones was appointed the Prime Minister's prime adviser on NHS transformation and social care.
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Asserting her appointment final evening, Mr Johnson stated: 'I promised to make adjustments to my senior crew in order that we are able to get on with higher delivering for the British folks.
'That's what we are actually doing by bringing in the easiest expertise and administration expertise with a transparent imaginative and prescient to unite and stage up our nation.'
Miss Jones added: 'I stay up for establishing an Workplace for the Prime Minister that gives him with the skilled operation to ship his agenda.'
Reporting to Cupboard Secretary Simon Case, her position might be to look at the best way No 10 is run and assist to arrange a brand new Workplace of the Prime Minister.
Mr Case stated: 'Samantha's expertise of main and managing transformation in the private and non-private sectors might be invaluable as we overhaul the constructions which assist the Prime Minister and Cupboard.
She joins Mr Johnson's chief of workers Steve Barclay, communications chief Guto Harri and head of coverage Andrew Griffith to create the brand new Workplace of the Prime Minister, introduced by Mr Johnson final week in response to the Sue Grey report into lockdown events.
Addressing the Commons afterwards, Mr Johnson stated: 'It's time to kind out what Sue Grey rightly calls the 'fragmented and complex' management constructions of Downing Road.'
It comes after Dan Rosenfield, the PM's former chief of workers, and Martin Reynolds, his principal non-public secretary, resigned final week.
Champion of the NHS with a love of studying Machiavelli
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Samantha Jones is deeply happy with her roots on the NHS frontline.
In 2019 she posted an image of herself as a pupil nurse from February 1989, writing: 'Thirty years in well being - as necessary now to me because it was then.'
Her husband, Professor Joe Harrison, is the chief government of Milton Keynes College Hospital NHS Basis Belief.
They've 12-year-old twins. Miss Jones has spoken of how her son Leo battled for all times after contracting meningitis at seven weeks outdated however later recovered.
She started her NHS profession as a nurse at Nice Ormond Road Hospital however rapidly realised life on the wards was not for her.
Whereas nonetheless a trainee, she went to see the chief nurse on the London kids's hospital and declared she needed to enter administration.
She later recalled: 'I stated, 'I do not know why I wish to be a supervisor, however I've received 4 brothers. I am too stroppy. I've to face by my beds whereas the advisor does his ward spherical and I am not allowed to talk till I am spoken to - and I am not having any of that'.'
The chief nurse supported Miss Jones's ambitions, telling her to complete her coaching after which assembly her recurrently to debate her plans.
Her drive and dedication stayed together with her as she moved quickly via the ranks.
When she was on the Well being Service's two-year graduate administration coaching scheme, she wrote to then NHS chief government Sir Alan Langlands and requested to shadow him for per week.
She later instructed the Well being Service Journal: 'Nobody had instructed me I might, nobody had instructed me I could not, and so I did it.
'I spent per week with him and for half an hour after each assembly he stated 'What do you suppose, Sam? Inform me what your view is'.'
The Well being Service Journal named her NHS chief government of the yr in 2014.
She has admitted to uncommon tastes. Her favorite books embody Machiavelli's The Prince, a Sixteenth-century information to ruthlessly acquiring and sustaining political energy, and Michael Rosen's traditional kids's story We're Going On A Bear Hunt.
Miss Jones has additionally instructed how her favorite meals is Japanese and her dream feast friends would come with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, David Walliams and Nelson Mandela.