The week in lobbying

prweek.com, 16 July 2009, 2:51pm

Policy Exchange director Neil O'Brien has criticised the way some lobbyists are courting the Conservative Party. The Financial Times reported this week that lobbyists are engaged in a 'desperate' scramble to secure people close to David Cameron, as businesses prepare for a Conservative government. It said Tory officials were being offered double or triple their salaries to move to the private sector. O'Brien told the paper: 'There are a lot of desperate lobbyists deciding they're going to suck up to the Tories as hard as possible, in a very overt and slightly vacuous kind of way.'

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