Sentences with phrase «election guru»

The prime minister has been asked whether he discussed plain cigarette packs with election guru and tobacco lobbyist Lynton Crosby at least 12 times, and each time he has replied using what appears to be a form of evasion.

Many MPs and fellow peers strongly support the former election guru strategist and feel it is unjust that Clegg has already asked for demanding an apology as after the whip was restored.

Nick Timothy mocked the Australian election guru for predicting on the eve of the election that the Tories would get a good result.

Tory election guru Sir Lynton Crosby said the up - and - down polls showed the referendum will «truly come down to the wire.»

The major political parties are importing highly - paid election gurus from overseas to mastermind their campaigns.

Here is what Mark Pack wrote last week for the Liberal Democrat Voice website (and the party's finest election guru, Lord Rennard has made the same point:

Susan Gaszczak, a member of the federal conference committee, warned Nick Clegg, the party leader, that the peer and former election guru was «destroying» the party, as she resigned along with members of her family after 28 years of activism.

The election guru is hammering out the kinks in the Tory machine, but his involvement comes at a price.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has responded with shock and disappointment at reports that Number 10 is blocking the legal recognition of humanist marriages because Lynton Crosby, David Cameron's election guru, sees reform as a «fringe» issue.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has responded with shock and disappointment at reports today that Number 10 is blocking the legal recognition of humanist marriages because Lynton Crosby, David Cameron's election guru, sees reform as a «fringe» issue.

Mr Miliband dismissed as «nonsense» suggestions that he had hired David Axelrod, Barack Obama's election guru, to give him a makeover.

Mr Gwynne, Labour's election guru and shadow communities secretary, said Labour «trod a very clever fine line» on Brexit during the 2017 election, by accepting the referendum result while demanding Britain keeps all the benefits of being in the single market.

Lynton Crosby, the election guru credited with persuading Cameron to sack «Toxic Mike» Gove as education secretary, is a pussy in comparison with the cabinet secretary, Jeremy Heywood, who used the occasion to scalp his knightly rival, Bob Kerslake, while attention was focused elsewhere.