Responsibility for the monitoring, control and mitigation of Conduct Risk for the Group. Thats the key; youve got to get the right therapist and not all therapists are right for all people. [35] Clients include 'One Young World'. [48], However, the Crown Prosecution Service said in December 2010 that it had determined that there was insufficient evidence to charge Coulson over allegations that he was aware of phone-hacking at the publication. Some people said that you deserved everything you got by going to prison and others, I think when you were talking to Richard Bacon in a previous podcast, he said that your sentence was very harsh. I use a guy who lives up in Scotland, Ron, who is just outstanding and I still talk to him from time to time now. Throughout his career Andy has been, as he puts it, poacher, gamekeeper and game - experiencing crisis from every angle. Ive really enjoyed it, but the process is that Im asking a whole bunch of really interesting people to share their stories and I just got to the end of the first series and it didnt seem very fair, frankly, that I hadnt put myself through the same process. Then we got word that, no it wasnt going to be, it was going to push on. Andy: My sentence, having been found guilty of the crime, was probably about right. Eloise and the boys have to take the gold medal, if you like, for getting me through but there are a whole load who get the silver medal and Im very grateful for it. His predecessors had had the highest level of vetting, as did his successor and (after his departure) his deputy. I love a good book, both fiction and non-fiction. And that just didnt happen. You try and work out what you can take into prison and what you cant. Did you do a lot of that? And then we were brought in to see you. I wont ever be at peace with it, I suspect in one sense, because it hurts. He subsequently joined David Cameron's personnel as communications director, until announcing his departure on 21 January 2011 because of continued media coverage of the phone-hacking affair. But first and foremost it was a professional relationship and thats exactly what I wanted it to be and he wanted it to be. Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks had an affair with former News of the World editor Andy Coulsonboth of whom are pasty, married to other people, and currently on trial for. And suddenly youre sat in one of them. You pull up and the gates open and you know youre going to prison, youre in no doubt that youre going to prison. 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The CPS said that witnesses interviewed by Metropolitan Police including those who had previously made allegations through media outlets had not been willing to provide admissible evidence. In 1994, he briefly moved to the Daily Mail, but after nine weeks moved back to The Sun to edit Bizarre. Again, that is what this podcast is mainly about. I was a pretty low profile, it didnt turn out that way, of course, but I was a pretty low-profile editor, at least I tried to be and thats absolutely how I saw the job as well when I went into Number 10. So, I was a very willing crisis volunteer long before I became a conscript. And before I knew it, much sooner than I thought, there was sun coming through the windows and then, again, it sounds strange, I suspect, to some people, but I just found the whole thing so utterly absurd. Andy Coulson is Former Editor of News of the World, Former Director of Communications, Downing Street, and an expert speaker on communications, crisis management and reputation. And thats the reason why I resigned. Andy: Their choice really. Andy: I think I would, to be honest, yeah, because Im just not outraged enough by much any more. I was encouraged to stay but I just felt from a practical point of view, because I am of course a resigning recidivist, much in the same way as I felt when I was at the News of the World, how on Earth am I able to sit here and write a leader, criticising that outrage thing again, criticising a politician when Ive got a reporter sat in jail? It was between governors and there was a proper shortage of staff. Then before I knew it I was standing on the landing and being put into a holding cell and then they told me Youre going to Suffolk, going to a place called Hollesley Bay.' I just think people deal with things in different ways. Diary Londoner's Diary: Truth surfaces about Damien's undersea world. Browse 1,448 andy coulson stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. I say that because I have been so completely blown away by the support and friendship that Ive had from people who, frankly, owed me nothing. For me and for Eloise, ask us honestly, was this the worst thing that ever happened to us? Nobody there wanted me to go. And I took the view that this is what it is and it is just another place, a pretty unpleasant one, but its just another place. All the old clichs are clichs for a reason and that kind of what doesnt kill you makes you stronger I think is true from the individual point of view, but I think it is also true from a family point of view. The judge added that it was for him, and not the jury, to decide on this aspect of the case and that the Crown's legal submissions had failed to satisfy him that Coulson's evidence had been sufficiently relevant to the Sheridan trial. I know Harvey was, what, 14? Again, that came out in a previous podcast, I think with Jeremy. Because his family relocated frequently, he had lived in seven cities by the time he was 17. I remember reading, after I came out, that I had been released after just five months on good behaviour. That must have felt weird, being the focus of the media storm? And the Old Bailey is a court that is straight out of central casting. I think that the danger with this conversation, if Im brutally honest with you, as we sit here right at the start of it, is that it somehow comes off as woe is me. I often read people saying that it doesnt really matter. I saw him in January. He hired Dominic Mohan, who was later promoted to editor. And funnily enough, the governor, or the duty governor, pulled me out of the cell one night to ask me whether or not I was OK because he had read the report. This podcast is about a crisis and how you get through it. Jane: Are you still friends? Jane: OK, and finally you asked this of all your guests, the three crisis cures, if you like, and you know the rules; it cant be a person. The saddest thing in prison is when youre queuing up for the phone, because thats how the system works, you have to wait to be able to use the phone. I mean, you've probably faced a few challenges in your life but an eight-month trial at the Old Bailey, followed by prison, is obviously another league. Jane: We talked a bit, obviously, there about family and knowing the value of your family. And that brings with it a whole bunch of other issues as well. There are a lot of very bad people in there and there are also a lot of people like me who are transiting, if you like. I thought that was pretty unusual and unfair, but it happened so I had to deal with it. Long before, in truth. So, until you are there for, as it turned out for me, a couple of weeks, a bit longer actually, youve got to wear this kind of corned-beef-coloured tracksuit, which is utterly charming. Jane: As you say, its high security for a reason, because there are some pretty serious criminals in there. How can I do that? In an interview with the Press Gazette in 2005, he said that "Tabloid newspapers in this country do more for its people than any other newspapers in the world". So, I spot the signs and I know what to do and I know how to kind of avoid it. So, youve got inmates there who have been in prison for a very long time. One you can have total control over, and that is: dont get into debt. Jane: I mean, in fairness, Ive known you, what, 25 years and you were like that before you had a crisis. Jane: I wanted to talk about Eloise now. Where did the resilience come from, do you think, to deal with that? It was an amazing place to be and it was fascinating and rewarding and I was reasonably good it and I loved my colleagues. You benefit from undiluted, unambiguous one-to-one advice, game changing campaigns and crisis guidance from p Jane: And that was what, because of the dangers of drug smuggling? Its actually a relatively modern prison but its got, as anyone whos been there, either inside or visiting, will know, this enormous American-style prison wall around its perimeter, and massive gates. Thats a memory I didnt want my boys to have and I regret that. [20], He became deputy editor of the News of the World, the Sunday sister paper of The Sun, in 2000. Coulson edited one of. During that time Andy faced three criminal trials. And I had so much incoming. And a whole lot of stuff happened at the News of the World which should not have happened during my time, and Im sorry about that because the impact of it on an awful lot of people was, the result of it was a lot of pain and a lot of hurt for people. I remember, vividly, a young man sitting on his own for the entire duration because nobody came to see him. I was working with people from another party and we all made that work really well. Jane: Do you feel a need to keep on apologising? Because youve not really spoken about that, have you? I was really concerned. Youre a state-school-educated Essex lad. Do you feel the need to sometimes wear that like a badge, to own it in certain situations? Andy: Hindsight yeah, but honestly hindsight is pointless in my view, particularly when you are trying to get through the crisis. Having to ring Eloise and say, its not just about getting through this prison sentence, we are going to do it all over again, that was probably the worst moment. On 7 July 2009, John Prescott called on leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron to remove Coulson from his position, after The Guardian revealed further details about phone-hacking by the News of the World. And I could equally say, why on Earth did you do that, Andy? The judge hearing Coulson's trial was critical of the prime minister, pondering whether the intervention was out of ignorance or deliberate, and demanded an explanation. Jane: And when they came to visit Belmarsh, because a lot of people listening to this will never have been to a Category A prison, even to visit, why is that your regret? Andys been upfront about that aspect of his CV during this podcast series and, indeed, has talked openly with his former prison mate, the England cricketer Chris Lewis, but hes never discussed his own crisis in any depth, until now. But thats the really easy answer to give, isnt it? Were going to put you to work. 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