A finalised list of Conservative Party chairmen and vice-chairs sees former MEP and Board of Trade member Dan Hannan appointed as the party’s new “international ambassador”. A new “Vice Chairman for Thinktank relations” role has also been created and given to the recently-appointed policy board chief Neil O’Brien. An interesting choice given O’Brien spent the morning oddly trawling back through old Tweets of the IEA’s Christopher Snowdon on the likelihood of a vaccine, seemingly to gloat…

While many of the positions had been public before, as detailed in his list of PPSs and Vice-Chairs, the new official list seen by Guido finally gives official job titles to the roles:

• Lee Rowley, Deputy Chairman – assisting the Co-Chairman with Blue Wall Engagement
• Nickie Aiken – Vice Chairman for Women and Affiliate Groups
• Andrew Bowie – Vice Chairman for Youth Engagement and Northern Ireland
• Sir David Evennett – Vice Chairman for Business Engagement
• Caroline Johnson – Vice Chairman for Disabilities
• Alan Mak, Vice Chairman for Backbencher policy
• Neil O’Brien, Vice Chairman for Thinktank Relations/Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party Policy Board
• Dan Hannan, International Ambassador
• Peter Gibson, PPS to the Party Co-Chairman

Tory donors can breathe a sigh of relief over the long list though – the roles’ generation pay packets were recently abolished…