Labour's campaign insiders are now selling access to the government they helped build. Anacta Strategies, founded by Starmer allies, counts Sky, Airbnb and Visa among linked clients. Just 4% of UK lobbying reaches the official register.

#LabourLobbying #KeirStarmer #UKPolitics

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#democracy4sale #Labourlobbying @ledbydonkeys.org

The Labour MPs who think weapons should be classed as ethical investments In March 2025, a group of 96 Labour MPs and peers called for investments in arms manufacturing to be recategorised as ‘ethical’, arguing that ESG policies were holding back defence spen…

The Labour MPs who think weapons should be classed as ethical investments
#RottenLabour #ArmsLobby #LabourLobbying

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Lobbyists: The firms that pressure politicians on behalf of the world’s most unethical organisations 30 of the UK’s most active lobbying houses and their links to the Labour party

A list of some of the UK's most active lobbying firms, their many connections to the Labour party, and the corporate clients whose interests they further 👇💰🥀
#LabourLobbying
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Northumbrian Water's lobbyist is Connect PA. Their leadership team includes David Halliwell who "uses his knowledge and networks, especially within the Labour Party"; Labour Cllr Sarah King, former Labour minister Andy Sawford, and Dan Simpson, former secretary to Labour's PLP. #LabourLobbying

Steve Race, lobbyist for the pharmaceutical industry, gambling and the ‘social cleansing’ developer Lendlease Steve Race backs Liz Kendall’s disability cuts. His lobbying career has seen him representing an American pharma firm implicated in profiting and exploitation during the height of the opioid …

Steve Race was a career corporate lobbyist before his election as Labour MP for Exeter in 2024. He worked for US firm McKesson who were forced to pay a huge settlement over their involvement in, and profiting from, the opioid crisis. #LabourLobbying
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Labour MPs with a lobbyist in the family According to the Register of MP’s Interests, 17 Labour MPs have a lobbyist as a spouse, partner or close family member.

Labour MPs with a corporate lobbyists in the family 👇
#LabourLobbying
If Ive missed anyone, let me know!
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Alice Perry: Labour bureaucrat, former lobbyist for Cicero and now for the UK’s third largest private health insurer, Aviva Alice Perry has been a long-serving bureaucrat at the top of the Labour party, a lobbyist at the firm representing Blackrock and Barclays, and now she’s paid by a private health insurance fir…

Alice Perry was one of Labour's top bureaucrats. Now she works for the UK's 3rd biggest private health insurance firm. Her role is to gain access to MPs and government decision-makers. 🥀💰🫰
#LabourLobbying
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Two headlines from today's Guardian, side by side. 1. 'Phasing out fossil fuels 'doomed to fail' says Tony Blair as he calls for rethink of 'net zero' policy. 2. Farage claims Reform UK's 'winning the argument' on net zero after Blair says current policies not working.

Isn't this what they call fishhook theory?
#netzero #TonyBlair #LabourLobbying

John Woodcock (Lord Walney): Paid by the arms and fossil fuels industries, cheerleading for Boris Johnson – and alleged sexual harassment The former Labour MP turned Johnson adviser was sacked from his advisory role on protest due to his extensive links with the arms industry, pro Israel and fossil fuel lobbyists.

John Woodcock (Lord Walney): Paid by the arms and fossil fuels industries, cheerleading for Boris Johnson - and alleged sexual harassment
#LabourLobbying
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Lobbyists: The firms that pressure politicians on behalf of the world’s most unethical organisations 30 of the UK’s most active lobbying houses and their links to the Labour party

The links between the Labour party and top lobbying firms that get paid by arms dealers, private health, private equity and spy tech firms to pressure MPs to scrap regulations and change laws in their favour #LabourLobbying #SocialistSunday
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Former Labour MP Barry Sheerman, Policy Connect and the profit-making firm doing DWP PiP assessments Sheerman’s organisation was lobbying for Ingeus when they won the DWP contract.

Barry Sheerman was a lobbyist while he was a Labour MP, and his lobbying org was representing Ingeus when they won the government contract to carry out DWP PiP assessments. #LabourLobbying #WelfareNotWarfare
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Naushabah Khan: Labour lobbyist for gambling and sugary cereals This Labour MP and career corporate lobbyist is firmly on the party’s right and has been a Labour party insider dating back to the Blair years.

Naushabah Khan (MP for Rainham & Gillingham) has worked at 3 lobbying firms. Clients at DGA include some of the biggest global gambling orgs: Gambling Business Group, Hippodrome Casinos, Novomatic and Gauselman. Also AirBnB, Paragon Banking and Nestle.
#LabourLobbying
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Naushabah Khan: Labour lobbyist for gambling and sugary cereals This pair of Labour MPs are firmly on the party’s right and have been Labour party insiders dating back to the Blair years.

Labour MP Naushabah Khan worked as a lobbyist for firm that helped push sugary cereals at children's breakfast clubs (Gillingham and Rainham) #LabourLobbying
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Alice Perry: Labour bureaucrat, former lobbyist for Cicero and now for the UK’s third largest private health insurer, Aviva Alice Perry has been a long-serving bureaucrat at the top of the Labour party, a lobbyist at the firm representing Blackrock and Barclays, and now she’s paid by a private health insurance fir…

Labour's Alice Perry has been peddling connections to government for private health and Cicero, who represent BlackRock. At least 15 Labour MPs have been introduced to Aviva by Perry.
#LabourLobbying #PrivateHealth
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Alice Perry: Labour bureaucrat, former lobbyist for Cicero and now for the UK’s third largest private health insurer, Aviva Alice Perry has been a long-serving bureaucrat at the top of the Labour party, a lobbyist at the firm representing Blackrock and Barclays, and now she’s paid by a private health insurance fir…

Labour's Alice Perry has been peddling connections to government for private health and Cicero, who Blackrock. At least 15 Labour MPs have been introduced to Aviva by Perry.
#LabourLobbying #PrivateHealth
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9. APCO Worldwide Labour Personnel: Kate Forrester Labour party adviser 2020-23, at APCO from 2023-25, now at Anacta; Sharon Segel, worked for Labour Member of Parliament Andrew Dismore; Mark Simpson, former adviser to Keir Starmer; Alex Bigham, at APCO from 2008-11, adviser to Stephen Twigg MP 2011-13, Labour Lambeth Councillor 2010-18, now a Director at lobbying firm Grayling. Clients: Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems; DP World (the owner of P&O ferries that illegally sacked 800 workers in 2021); Healthcare Distribution Association which represents the interests of firms supplying health services, medicines and devices (members include Bayer, GSK, Reckitt, MSD, Pfizer, Lilly, Day Lewis pharmacies, Uniphar, Speeds Healthcare, Alliance Healthcare, Sigma and others); Liberty Global (telecoms); Seqirus UK Limited (vaccines); Singer Capital Markets Limited (private equity); Apple; Accenture, Becton Dickinson (pharma). https://labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/03/16/lobbyists-the-firms-that-pressure-politicians-on-behalf-of-the-worlds-most-unethical-organisations/

Corporate lobbying firms and their connection to Labour: APCO Worldwide.
Former Starmer adviser Mark Simpson; Kate Forrester; Sharon Segel; Alex Bigham.
Clients: Israeli weapons firm Elbit Systems, Apple, Accenture, DP World.
#LabourLobbying #ShutElbitDown

The IHPN, private health lobbying firm Whitehouse Communications, Wes Streeting's NHS policies and PFI 2.0
#NHSPrivatisation #LabourLobbying
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Wes Streeting seems to always do exactly what the IHPN want
#NHSPrivatisation #LabourLobbying
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The IHPN, private health lobbying firm Whitehouse Communications, Wes Streeting's NHS policies and PFI 2.0
#NHSPrivatisation #LabourLobbying
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Max Wilson's linkedin profile. He was a political officer to the Labour PLP then and adviser to LOTO (ED Miliband). When Corbyn was elected Labour leader, he exited Labour and became Head of Comms for Bath Heathrow. He also worked at lobbyists WPI, and joined Whitehouse Comms in Sept 2020.

https://www.thetimes.com/travel/advice/scare-tactics-land-heathrow-in-trouble-zns99cn8c62

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'Back Heathrow' was exposed as an 'astroturf' campaign that was funded by Heathrow Airport; exact amounts were not disclosed. Max Wilson went straight from Ed Miliband's office to running this hoodwinking operation - rather than working in Labour under Corbyn.
#ThirdRunway #Heathrow #LabourLobbying

Max Wilson's profile on Whitehouse Comms' website: Max leads Whitehouse public affairs practice, advising organisations on how to position themselves with policymakers, how to communicate with influential decisionmakers and how to further strategic objectives. Prior to joining Whitehouse, Max spent over five years working for the Labour Party in several different roles including as Head of Campaigns for the Parliamentary Labour Party’s (PLP) Political Services Unit and as Senior Political Adviser in the Leader of the Opposition’s Office (LOTO). Max also served as Head of Communications and Public Affairs for Back Heathrow where he led the community campaign group’s media relations and political engagement activity, as well as also working for another strategic communications consultancy. https://whitehousecomms.com/about-us/our-team/max-wilson/ Wilson's linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-wilson-78bb1324/?originalSubdomain=uk BackHeathrow, third runway: https://www.backheathrow.org/

A pic of Wilson surrounded by logos - HCRG, Virgin Care, Spencer Private hospitals, BUPA, Specsavers, Circle Health group, 18 week support, Nuffield Health, InHealth, Kims hospital, Ramsay health group, Beneden Hospitals; Connect Health; HCA healthcare, Spire Healthcare.

Linkedin post from Liam Byrne MP, the Chair of the House of Commons Business and Trade Committee, quote-posting Max wilson's post about a Whitehouse Comms exclusive event 'In Conversation with Liam Byrne'.

From 18 week support website. The services they provide for the NHS, inc Gastro and Endoscopy, ENT and Audilogu, Neurology< Dermatology, Cardiology, radiology and more. https://18weeksupport.com/trusts/ More about 'insourcing and what 18 Week Support do here: https://inwhoseinterests.uk/2022/07/18/nhs-privatisation-in-kent-medway-diagnostics/

Max Wilson is the Director of Public Affairs at Whitehouse Communications. He was previously adviser to Ed Miliband and was Head of Comms for the 'Back Heathrow' third runway campaign.
Whitehouse Comms lobby for private health, and Wilson provides access to ministers.
#LabourLobbying

Whole article: https://labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/03/16/lobbyists-the-firms-that-pressure-politicians-on-behalf-of-the-worlds-most-unethical-organisations/

The Labour party is linked to the Norwegian oil firm behind Rosebank - Equinor; exploitative Energy firm Centrica and US arms manufacturing giant Northrop Grumman via senior Labour insiders installed at lobbying firm Arden Strategies.
#LabourLobbying #ConflictsOfInterest #UKPol

Anacta UK Labour Personnel: Teddy Ryan [Labourleaks], former Labour Regional Director who is married to Hollie Ridley, Labour's General Secretary; Kate Forrester, former Labour Party Political Adviser and Shonagh Munro (ex-Tony Blair Institute). Recent clients: Aviva (the second largest UK private health insurer and insurer of Israel's weapons industry); Choice Care (private equity backed residential social care chain); Voyage Care (another private equity backed residential social care chain); Island Green Power UK Ltd; The Electric Car Scheme Ltd; Accenture; Apple; Becton Dickinson (pharma); CPL Industries (solid fuels manufacturer); CSL Seqirus (pharma); DP World (the owner of P&O ferries that illegally sacked 800 workers in 2021); GML Ltd; Healthcare Distribution Association; Levi Strauss & Co and Liberty Global (owner of Virgin Media). SOURCE https://labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/03/16/lobbyists-the-firms-that-pressure-politicians-on-behalf-of-the-worlds-most-unethical-organisations/

Labour's General Secretary Hollie Ridley is married to Teddy Ryan, a lobbyist for private health insurance, workers' rights abusing DP World, and profit-making private equity backed social care firms.
#LabourLobbying

Johanna Baxter, Mark Glover, Venture Capital, Anglian Water and lobbying firm SEC Newgate Johanna Baxter is the Labour MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South, whose husband Mark Glover lobbies for private water, venture capital, London landlords and property developers.

Labour MP Johanna Baxter: her husband lobbies for the Venture Capital Trust Association, Anglian Water and a landlord group called the London Property Alliance.
#LabourLobbying #LabourForSale
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Photo of Johanna Baxter and her lobbyist husbad Mark Glover surrounded by logos of Anglian Water, VCTA (Venture Capital Trust Association), The London Property Alliance, SEC Newgate (lobbying firm), and UKEMA.

SEC Newgate Personnel: Mark Glover, Chairman, Vice Chair of SME4Labour, former Labour councillor and Chair of Southwark Labour Group. He is married to Johanna Baxter, Labour MP, and was Federal Executive of the Lib Dems in 1992. Charlie Rattigan, Consultant, Parliamentary Researcher for the Lib Dems Clients: The Venture Capital Trust Association (VCTA), the industry body who represent 12 of the largest venture capital firms in the UK, including Albion Capital, Octopus Investments, Foresight, and YFM Equity Partners. VCTA 'actively campaign' to shape the UK's regulatory environment to 'unlock growth capital' for their clients. They represent 90% of VCTs (Venture Capital Trusts) in the UK. SEC Newgate was among 120 businesses who signed a letter backing Labour 'as the party of change' for government in May 2024. SEC Newgate also represent the interests of Anglian Water (a private water company), UK Equity Markets Association (UKEMA), Robert McAlpine, EUROFIMA, Unihomes, Independent Renewable Energy Generators Group (IREGG), Special Interest Group of Municipal Authorities (SIGOMA), London Property Alliance (LPA) who 'represent 400+ of the leading companies involved in central London real estate (owners, investors, developers + professional advisors)', Cenergist, Back Market, 55 Redefined, OnPath Energy, United Parks & Resorts Inc, Paysafe, Seaworld, and KR1. labourrightwatch.wordpress.com

Mark Glover's profile on SEC Newgate. https://www.secnewgate.co.uk/our-people/mark-glover Mark has an unrivalled understanding of the interface between politics, communications, and business, after 25 years in consultancy. Founder of Newington in 2006 (which merged with Newgate to form SEC Newgate UK in 2021), Mark led the multi award-winning consultancy to its UK TOP TEN rating. He regularly advises senior corporates on public affairs and communications issues. Splitting his time between Scotland and London, Mark, a Fellow of the PRCA, is also Vice Chair of SME4Labour and is heavily involved in the Labour Party. He sits on the Advisory Board of Rewired Earth and has worked with wide variety of clients recently in utilities, transport, housing and ESG. Mark is a leading expert in understanding the Labour Party, its organisation, campaigning and leadership as well as having a breadth of knowledge about UK politics from over 35 years of campaigning and high-level involvement. Mark is a former councillor and Chair of Southwark Labour Group. He is married to Johanna Baxter MP. Mark is a winner of PRCA Outstanding Contribution to Public Affairs Award 2020, and a number of Sabre and PRCA awards for his campaign work. He is also a past Master of the Company of Communicators, the industry’s City Livery Company.

Johanna Baxter's register of interests, with donations from her husband, Mark Glover; SME4Labour, which her husband is vice Chair of, and Gary Lubner, who's millions come from the South African firm that busted apartheid sanctions and profited during the apartheid era. https://members.parliament.uk/member/5063/registeredinterests

Johanna Baxter, Labour MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South, whose husband Mark Glover lobbies for private water, venture capital, and London landlords and property developers. He donated to her via SME4Labour, which he is Vice Chair of.
#LabourLobbying #RevolvingDoor #BoycottLabour

Tom Watson, senior adviser to Flutter, the world's largest online betting firm, 2020. Carl Beech Affair. Canvassed for Praful Nargund against Jeremy Corbyn in Insling in 2024. Since Sept 2024, Senior Adviser at lobbying form Lodestone Communications. https://labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/01/24/tom-watson/

Lodestone represent the KPMG's Mark Britnell, known for making comments such as 'the NHS will be shown no mercy" https://labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/01/24/tom-watson/

Lodestone - lobbying parliament for the big cororations Lodestome leveraged its network of key political contacts to effect policy change https://labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/01/24/tom-watson/

Tom Watson surrounded by logos of companies that he and Lodestone have lobbied for

Ex-Labour deputy Tom Watson, the world's largets online betting company, political lobbying at Lodestone, and his link to Mark Britnell, the man who said "the NHS will be shown no mercy".
#LabourLobbying
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Is Abdi Duale the ‘architect’ of Labour’s housing policy? The claim was made in The Daily Mail and repeated in other news outlets, but the Mail isn’t a wholly reliable source. What should we make of the claim? The claim stems from a meeting organise…

Is Abdi Duale, Senior Director at FTI Consulting, the architect of Labour's housing policy?
FTI lobby for 4 housing developer corporations.
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A photoof Labour NEC member Abdi Duale with the logos of Palantir, Operose Health, Macquarie, Draz and BAE Systems.

Simultaneously a corporate lobbyist and on Labour's NEC - Is Abdi Duale poacher and gamekeeper at the same time?
#LabourLobbying
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Joani Reid, Labour MP for East Kilbride and Strathaven has questions to answer about her husband's secretive lobbying firm...
#LabourLobbying #ShamLabour