£140,000 salary for Downing St communications director
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Your support makes all the difference.The salary of Downing Street director of communications Andy Coulson is £140,000, it was revealed today.
The figure was released by Prime Minister David Cameron in a list of the salaries of all the special advisers in Government and their pay bands.
It shows that three of Mr Cameron's senior aides earn six-figure salaries, including Mr Coulson, Edward Llewellyn and Kate Fall.
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