# Greg Beale

greg beales (born 1977) is Director of Communications, Policy & Campaigns at the homelessness charity Shelter and a former Downing Street advisor to Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, and formerly Director of Strategy and Planning for the Labour Party == Political career == Beales served as Senior Advisor for Health and Social Care issues to the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown after Brown became Prime Minister in 2007. Initially a Senior Civil Servant, by 2010 Beales had become a political appointment and was listed on as a Policy Advisor on the Cabinet Office website assigned to the Downing Street Policy Directorate. From 2010 Beales become Labour Party Director of Policy as the party become the official opposition and after a reorganisation of the party in 2012 Beales served as the Labour Party's Executive Director, responsible for strategy and the keeper of party polling for Ed Miliband.