Stephen Wall subsequently served as Assistant Private Secretary to David Owen, the Foreign Secretary and Lord Carrington, David Owen's successor.
11 Facts About Stephen Wall
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Stephen Wall spent four years at the British Embassy, Washington, DC from 1979 to 1983, when he returned to the Foreign Office.
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Stephen Wall was Private Secretary to Prime Minister John Major from 1991 to 1993, responsible for foreign policy and defence issues.
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Stephen Wall was sent as Ambassador to Portugal in 1993, and he remained there until 1995, when he was named as Britain's Permanent Representative to the European Union.
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Stephen Wall returned to London in 2000 to takes charge of the Cabinet Office's European Secretariat as European adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Stephen Wall was named as principal adviser to Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster in June 2004, and he served until June 2005.
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From 2009 to 2019 Sir Stephen Wall was chairman of Cumberland Lodge, an educational charity initiating fresh debate on the burning questions facing society.
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Stephen Wall was chair of the pro-EU 'Federal Trust' from 2010 to 2020.
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Stephen Wall has worked as an Official Historian at the Cabinet Office, writing the Official History of Britain's relationship with the rest of the European Union.
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Stephen Wall was Equalities Champion at UCL for LGBT+ issues.
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Stephen Wall said that reading Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion led him to abandon Catholicism.