Sir Bernard Ingham was a journalist for 18 years on his local weekly, the
Hebden Bridge Times, then the Yorkshire Evening Post, Yorkshire
Post and The Guardian before becoming a temporary Civil Servant in 1967.
He intended to return to Fleet Street after two years but it took him 24 years to
get back. In between he was press secretary in first the Department of Employment
(to Barbara Castle, Robert Carr and Maurice Macmillan) and then in the Department
of Energy (to Lord Carrington, Eric Varley and Tony Benn). For the last two years
of his time in Department of Energy he was first head of the energy conservation
policy division which included renewables. He was asked to be Mrs Thatcher's Chief
Press Secretary in No 10 in 1979 without having known or met her and remained in that
position until she resigned and he retired in 1990. Since then he has been a columnist,
broadcaster, author and consultant and currently am Secretary of
Supporters of Nuclear Energy, a pressure group
of individuals.
Bernard Ingham contributed to the Energy Futures debate at
Development, Sustainability and Environment in October 2005
and was on the panel at The
Great Energy Debate in March 2006 at Discovery Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne
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