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Colin Bloom
Colin Bloom (born September 6, 1970) is a British government adviser, businessman and political and not-for-profit strategist. He is a non-denominational Christian.

Under Prime Minister David Cameron Bloom was appointed as the UK Conservative Party’s International Director, a post which he held until 2017. In 2019, Bloom was appointed to be the British Government’s Faith Adviser and tasked with leading a review into Government engagement with faith, people of faith and places of worship. It was the first of its kind, and the Bloom Review was published in April 2023.

During the 2022 Conservative Party Leadership Elections he was one of the key advisers on the Liz Truss campaign, and he went on to serve as one of her senior political advisers in No10 Downing Street when she was Prime Minister.

A regular lecturer and speaker on international affairs, he has served on the Executive Boards of the International Democrat Union (IDU) and the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe (ACRE). Amongst other responsibilities, Bloom is an Associate at the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) in London.

Early Life & Career
Bloom was born on September 6, 1970 in Central London UK. His father was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and his grandfather George (Crom) Bloom was born in Yingkou, China. He was educated in Kent, United Kingdom, and despite his father’s Jewish heritage and his mother’s Christian heritage his early life was agnostic. In his late teens Bloom became a Christian.

He ran for British Parliament twice as a Conservative candidate in Labour strongholds, in 2005 in Halton and in 2010 in Erith & Thamesmead. Between 2002 and 2010 Bloom was a Local Authority Councillor and Cabinet Member in South-East London.

In 2010 he succeeded Baroness Berridge in becoming the Executive Director of the Conservative Christian Fellowship. In 2015 under the then Party Chairman Lord Feldman, Bloom was appointed as the Conservative Party’s Director of Outreach and International Director. In that role he served on the Executive Boards of the International Democrat Union (IDU) and the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe (ACRE).

During the 2022 Conservative Party Leadership Elections he was one of the key advisers on the successful Liz Truss campaign. Working closely with Mark Fullbrook, Downing Street’s Chief of Staff, Wendy Morton, the Chief Whip and Jake Berry the Conservative Party Chairman, Bloom went on to serve as one of Liz Truss’s senior political advisers in No10 Downing Street.

Throughout his career Bloom has had an interest in International Affairs and has spent considerable time in the Middle East, Africa and the United States. In 2014 the now deleted blog Archbishop Cranmer cited Bloom as one of the UK’s top 100 most influential Christians.

The Bloom Review
In 2019, Bloom was appointed to be the British Government’s Faith Adviser and tasked with leading a review into Government engagement with faith, people of faith and places of worship. It was the first of its kind, and the Bloom Review was published in April 2023.

In one of the largest responses to the official call for evidence, the review got more than 21,000 individual responses and processed more than 1 million bits of data. The final edition was more than 65,000 words and made 22 recommendations on issues such as forced and coercive marriage, faith literacy amongst public servants and faith-based extremism.

Review Response
The Bloom Review received a range of responses and prompted several debates, regarding the relationship between faith and the state, the gap in faith literacy across government[12], and intra-faith issues which Government should address more effectively.[13] These included responses from Christians [14] [15], Jews[16], Sikhs[17], Hindus[18] and Humanists[19], regarding the implementation of Bloom's 22 recommendations.

Political Views
In Bloom's work on the relationship between faith and the state, he considers the freedom of conscience as essential to the health of democratic society.[20] Bloom is politically conservative, his view of Democracy and free society includes the belief that everyone has the right to speak, defend and promote what they want, in a non coercive and non-violent way, allowing others to freely practice their beliefs. Bloom's view of government regards governing institutions as responsible for protecting the liberty of the individual, and intervening where ideological, cultural or religious trends undermine it[21].

Bloom has advocated for the preservation of established traditions and institutions. In a 2015 Cambridge Union debate. Alongside Stephen Fry, Bloom opposed the motion to disestablish the Church of England. Bloom contended that attempts to disestablish the church reflect a revolutionary republicanism seeking to secularise institutions and remove Christian symbolism from British national identity. In the same debate, Bloom also argued the plurality of faiths practiced in British society is a product of Britain's identify as a Christian country, which supports the right of the individual to freely practice their faith, regardless of their religion. [22]

Personal Life
Bloom is married and has four children. He is Chairman of VETTING.com, an international background screening and security company.