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...Sir Lynton Crosby, Cameron’s election supremo, used to ask: “Why do we need a manifesto?”...
...Nick Timothy, who was May’s joint chief of staff and principal ideas man, on Wednesday labelled the deal a “capitulation”....
...Timothy’s dream of remoulding the Conservative party into a force that speaks more to the people of northern provinces was over....
...Mr Timothy wrote in the Spectactor in June that the campaign had focused on Mrs May, to the exclusion of most ministers, apparently because of Crosby Textor....
...Nick Timothy, the main author of the Conservative manifesto, also steered clear....
...But now Mr Timothy, who resigned as Mrs May’s joint chief of staff over the weekend, has suggested that both Crosby Textor and Mr Messina are in need of a thorough tactical overhaul....
...But the Tories lost most of the target seats that Mrs May visited during the campaign, leading to recriminations between her former joint chief of staff, Nick Timothy, and her campaign guru, Lynton Crosby...
...Mr Gummer was also the joint architect — with Mr Timothy — of the much-criticised Tory manifesto....
...This rapid U-turn has the hallmarks of Sir Lynton Crosby’s decisive leadership — it’s embarrassing but necessary....
...The prime minister’s campaign team, which includes the Australian pollster Sir Lynton Crosby, are taking a restrictive approach to the media in this election....
...Sir Lynton Crosby, heading the Tory election campaign, has urged Mrs May not to clutter his plan for a simple presidential contest between the prime minister and Jeremy Corbyn with contentious policies....
...The social care policy, dubbed a “dementia tax” by Labour, was added to the Conservative manifesto at the last minute by Mrs May on the advice of her co-chief of staff, Nick Timothy, who was in charge of...
...Sir Lynton Crosby, the Australian strategist who led the Tories’ 2015 general election campaign, has also been given a leading role in this year’s contest....
...He also suggested that Lynton Crosby should be given “total control”, following reports that the Australian strategist had opposed Nick Timothy, Mrs May’s joint chief of staff, over including the social...
...There were reports that Mrs May’s other joint chief of staff, Fiona Hill, had objected to it, as had Sir Lynton Crosby, the Conservatives’ campaign guru....
...The social care policy, dubbed a “dementia tax” by Labour, was added to the Conservative manifesto at the last minute by Mrs May on the advice of her co-chief of staff Nick Timothy, who was in charge of...
...Lynton Crosby, the election strategist who led the party’s 2015 campaign and will oversee the coming one, has been seen at Conservative party headquarters in Matthew Parker Street in recent weeks and had...
...But concern is intensifying at Conservative HQ there are too many cooks: strategist Sir Lynton Crosby, pollster Mark Textor, May consiglieres Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill (and not forgetting Philip May) are...
...I'm sure some on Theresa May's team, some at Lynton Crosby who was the strategist running the campaign, some at Conservative HQ....
...However, Lynton Crosby, the Conservatives’ election strategist, was made a knight — an announcement that attracted criticism after it was leaked this week....
...Being Soviet: Identity, Rumour and Everyday Life under Stalin 1939-1953, by Timothy Johnston, Oxford University Press, RRP£55 An ambitious and thought-provoking study of the lives of ordinary Soviet people...
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