Budget on March 24th – 8 in the morning, March 10th

Alex Smith

Alex was editor and first director of LabourList in 2009-2010, during which time he established the site as the number one Labour blog with some 450,000 readers and over 3 million pageviews a year.<br /> <br /> A leading political communications and campaigns specialist, Alex was Director of Online Communications and Campaigns during Ed Miliband's award-winning Labour leadership bid and later as Communications Manager in the Opposition Leader's Office in Parliament.<br /> <br /> He is now a consultant at Champollion Digital, and is also establishing a community network charity, North London Cares, and editing a book on Enterprise in the Labour Party.<br /> <br /> In 2010, Alex stood as a council candidate for Labour in the ward in which he grew up, St George's ward in Islington. He is a co-founder of the Latimer Project and a governor at Holloway School.<br /> <br /> Before becoming involved in the Labour Party, Alex spent 2007-2008 in the United States, working in New York and volunteering on the Obama campaign in Brooklyn. He later devised and directed the independent, grassroots organisation Drive for Obama.<br /> <br /> Alex has written on British and American politics for Prospect Magazine, Progress, Compass, The Fabians and Total Politics magazine as well as for Progressive London, the Government Gazette and House Magazine on policy and web campaigning. He has spoken at events at the Houses of Parliament, Oxford University, Manchester Town Hall and the University of Westminster for organisations including Progressive London, Republic, NetrootsUK and the BBC College of Journalism.<br /> <br /> You can follow Alex on Twitter, where he comments on music, sport and America, as well as politics.