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...“The Conservatives and the Australian Liberal party mimic each other because of the Crosby link,” said one senior Labour UK figure, saying that immigration was a common theme in previous elections....
...He is a long-term ally of Crosby, who helped Johnson win two London mayoral elections and advised a number of Tory prime ministers. Canzini worked for CT Group before working at Number 10....
...The Byrds were formed in 1964 after he encountered fellow ex-folkies Gene Clark and Jim, later Roger, McGuinn on his return to LA....
...The New South Wales lobbyist register shows that Crosby Textor Research Strategies — another of Crosby’s businesses — represents clients including the Australian Petroleum Exploration Association and BHP...
...Another famous Australian political strategist, Lynton Crosby, talked about knocking the barnacles off the boat....
...His opposition to the levy raised questions because until February he worked at CT Group, an advisory company belonging to Crosby, who represents multiple fossil fuel clients....
...Get your barnacles off for the lads Something that Canzini definitely has got from Sir Lynton Crosby, as Jim reveals, is the phrase “get the barnacles off the boat”, the line Crosby used when he took over...
...Canzini has kept a much lower profile than Crosby, saying on his Twitter page — beneath a picture of Darth Vader — “Who cares who or what I am?”...
...After smiling his way through the royal pageant on Sunday, Johnson assembled his closest allies in Downing Street, including strategist Lynton Crosby, chief of staff Steve Barclay, communications chief Guto...
...Those pushing for it to be extended to housing associations include Lynton Crosby, an Australian strategist who is close to Johnson....
...Johnson told MPs that Sir Lynton Crosby, the Australian electoral strategist and architect of previous Tory election victories, was helping to oversee a fightback....
...The longtime Tory staffer, has close ties to Sir Lynton Crosby, the Australian political adviser....
...Additional reporting by Sebastian Payne and Jim Pickard in London...
...A protégé of veteran strategist Lynton Crosby, the Australian’s aim is to instil message discipline and show clear leadership....
...Stills’s exhausting all-night sessions in the recording studio were fuelled by “Jim Beam, cocaine and cheeseburgers”. The pleasure-seeking Crosby — whose credo was “playground, playpen, universe!”...
...Mr Fullbrook worked closely with Mr Crosby, whose firm Crosby Textor ran Mr Johnson’s two successful London mayoral campaigns....
...In London he owns Crosby Hall, a building that was once a medieval merchant house, as well as a 48,000 acre estate in Scotland....
...(chart via FT) Spitzenkandidaten series Jan Zahradil, a Czech MEP and lead candidate for the Eurosceptic European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR), gets a grilling from the FT’s Jim Brunsden and...
...Natalie Crosby-Jones, head of membership, has sent a memo reminding associations that they can refuse membership in certain instances....
...For now Mr Johnson is being restrained by his advisers — including the Australian strategist Lynton Crosby — rather than causing trouble in an election period....
...As Jim O’Neill argued in a recent Financial Times op-ed (quoted by Mr Corbyn), Labour is reflecting the mood of the times. That mood can easily change....
...Mr Crosby is teaming up with Barack Obama’s former political adviser Jim Messina, and Giles Mackay, the founder of property data firm Hometrack, to found Outra, a marketing group that aims to help businesses...
...He prefers “Make America Great Again”, which he once said refers to the 1950s, the time of Jim Crow segregation laws and “national origin” quotas in immigration policy....
...Immigration, a familiar Crosby theme and an area perceived as a Labour weakness, is also moving up the Tory agenda....
...Jim Messina, the data expert who ran Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign, has been hired by the Conservative party to work on the June general election....
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