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The Cuadrilla fracking site at Preston New Road. Tory manifesto author Rachel Wolf is a partner at Public First, which lobbies on behalf of the firm
THE Tory Party’s election manifesto is being written by a lobbyist for “the frackers, the tax dodgers and the zero-hour exploiters,” Labour warned today.
Rachel Wolf, a former aide to Michael Gove during his time in the education office, is setting out Conservative policies while continuing to work as a partner at Public First — a business which lobbies ministers on behalf of shale gas industry firms such as Cuadrilla.
Public First also represents the Internet Association, which is the trade body for technology giants such as Uber, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Microsoft and Amazon.
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests