Mandelson firm lobbies for TikTok, Shell and water industry in boom under Labour

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Global Counsel has helped 23 clients arrange meetings or other communications with ministers or senior civil servants

In the previous eight years while the Conservatives were in Downing Street, Lord Mandelson’s firm lobbied government for 11 clients.. For many years it has been common to see a change of government result in business interests moving to lobbying firms they perceive as offering better access to those in power.

Global Counsel has not broken any rules or laws through any of the Government contacts, which were all properly registered, and the company says that Mandelson has no involvement in the firm’s “registrable work”. , who serves as its chief executive. Wegg-Prosser served as Downing Street’s director of strategic communications while Sir Tony Blair was prime minister., who is now City minister at the Treasury under Rachel Reeves. This was published in the official register of MPs’ financial interests.

It includes whether they call or write to a minister, arrange for clients to meet a minister, attend a ministerial meeting with a client, or communicate to a minister on their client’s behalf at an event. The committee also recommended an extension to include any contacts with ministerial special advisers, financial and commercial directors in the Civil Service, plus hundreds of managers of major projects such as the HS2 railway, benefits programmes and hospital-building schemes.

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