Neal Lawson

Neal Lawson at the Compass conference, June 2006

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
• 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.

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.