Confirmed: Tories spent millions more than Labour on the 2015 election
The Electoral Commission has today released the party expenditures for last year’s general election campaign, confirming what we…
Jim Messina
Labour must heed the four minute warning
We are living, it is said, in the age of Big Data. Analytics are where it is at.…
5 things we learned from David Axelrod’s election campaign intervention
David Axelrod was hired to advise Ed Miliband exactly a year ago, but there has been considerable criticism…
“That’s what’s fundamentally missing”: Labour’s US election guru Axelrod speaks out on Tory plan
David Axelrod has made a rare public intervention in British politics with an interview in today’s Guardian G2.…
US Tory adviser boasts about wages boom in America as British wages hit slowest growth on record
Jim Messina, the former Obama adviser hired by the Conservatives to help run their election campaign next year,…
Grant Shapps derides Jim Messina’s “thing for Obama” campaign
While the hiring of Obama strategist David Axelrod has raised the spirits of many in Labour’s camp, the…
Democrats turn on Tory adviser Messina
The New York Times ran a piece yesterday on the “face off” between former Obama aides Jim Messina…
5 reasons not to be spooked by UKIP – if Labour gets its act together
Matthew Goodwin and Rob Ford have teased their sure-to-be excellent book Revolt on the Right, an analysis of…
Tory adviser Messina takes gambling job – on same day Tories vote against gambling crackdown
Questions over the clients of Tory election-guru and lobbyist Lynton Crosby have been circulating for months now, with…
An Open Letter to Jim Messina
Dear Jim, Welcome to British politics. We’re all a bit surprised that you have signed up to the…
