“… Raab, a former Brexit secretary, is being helped by Sir Hugo Swire, Suella Braverman, Shailesh Vara, Robert Courts and Michael Tomlinson, along with former Vote Leave advisers from Hanbury Strategy. …”
And what is “Hanbury Strategy”?
“Hanbury Strategy is a Conservative-led lobbying firm set up by ex-David Cameron adviser Ameet Gill and Brexit campaigner and former British Bankers’ Association director, Paul Stephenson in September 2016. In June 2017, it hired Lizzie Loudon, former press secretary to the Prime Minister, Theresa May. …
Secret clients
Hanbury is secretive about its lobbying clients. It is not signed up to the industry transparency registers, or the UK official register of lobbyists. When it was established, it said it could not name clients it had secured, but the founders said they include a tech start-up based nearby in East London, and a political campaign group. …
In May 2017 the Times reported that Gill was providing ‘secret advice’ to the campaign for the French president-elect Emmanuel Macron. Email correspondence and an invoice from Hanbury Strategy were among a cache of hacked documents.”
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