Difference between revisions of "Neal Lawson"
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*[[Renewal]] | *[[Renewal]] | ||
*[[Lawson Lucas Mendelsohn]] (LLM) -- a political consultancy whose inaugural brochure in 1997 promised to bring an "ethical" fragrance to the niffy business of parliamentary lobbying. | *[[Lawson Lucas Mendelsohn]] (LLM) -- a political consultancy whose inaugural brochure in 1997 promised to bring an "ethical" fragrance to the niffy business of parliamentary lobbying. | ||
* [[CentreForum]] - Board member <ref> CentreForum [http://www.centreforum.org/about/board.html Board] Accessed 21st August 2008</ref> | * [[CentreForum]] - Board member <ref> CentreForum [http://www.centreforum.org/about/board.html Board] Accessed 21st August 2008</ref> | ||
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==External Resources== | ==External Resources== | ||
*Francis Wheen '[http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,434619,00.html Social justice - that's so old Labour]' The Guardian, 7 February 2001. | *Francis Wheen '[http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,434619,00.html Social justice - that's so old Labour]' The Guardian, 7 February 2001. | ||
Revision as of 17:08, 18 July 2010
Neal Lawson is a former adviser to Gordon Brown and was a strategist for Tony Blair during the 1997 election. He is the Managing Editor of the Blairite Renewal magazine and the founder of Nexus, a Blairite internet discussion forum. He has boasted of helping GTech, the discredited Lottery company, to win their Lottery contract.
Affiliations
- Compass, Chairman
- Nexus
- Renewal
- Lawson Lucas Mendelsohn (LLM) -- a political consultancy whose inaugural brochure in 1997 promised to bring an "ethical" fragrance to the niffy business of parliamentary lobbying.
- CentreForum - Board member [1]
External Resources
- Francis Wheen 'Social justice - that's so old Labour' The Guardian, 7 February 2001.
Articles or books by Neal Lawson
- Neal Lawson and Neil Sherlock, We must sink our differences, The New Statesman, 29 May 2000. "A leading Blairite and a former adviser to Paddy Ashdown call for a new attempt at Lib-Lab collaboration".
- Neal Lawson and Neil Sherlock, The Progressive Century: The Future of the Centre-Left in Britain, Palgrave, 2001, ISBN: 0333949625.
- Neal Lawson and Paul Thompson, The stakes are too high, The Guardian, 9 August 2004.
- Neal Lawson, What is the point of conference?, The New Stateman, 26 September 2005.
- Neal Lawson, Labour doesn't just need a new leader, but a new direction, The Guardian, 28 September 2005.
- Neal Lawson, Why we think the Prime Minister should go now, The Independent, 9 May 2006.
- Neal Lawson, Where idealism and pragmatism meet, The New Statesman, 19 June 2006.
