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He is a former managing partner of [[Portland PR]] from 2006 until 2008 when he joined [[Policy Exchange]] as its communications director. <ref> David Singleton, [http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/905774/Senior-Tories-join-forces-form-new-lobbying-agency/?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH Senior Tories join forces to form new lobbying agency], prweek.com, Thursday, 14 May 2009 </ref> where he remained for less than three months. | He is a former managing partner of [[Portland PR]] from 2006 until 2008 when he joined [[Policy Exchange]] as its communications director. <ref> David Singleton, [http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/905774/Senior-Tories-join-forces-form-new-lobbying-agency/?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH Senior Tories join forces to form new lobbying agency], prweek.com, Thursday, 14 May 2009 </ref> where he remained for less than three months. | ||
| − | Bethell’s father was a Conservative MEP and hereditary peer. | + | Bethell’s father was a Conservative MEP and hereditary peer: [[Nicholas Bethell]], the 4th Baron Bethell. |
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Revision as of 12:17, 9 April 2013
James Bethell is Director of lobbying consultancy Westbourne Communications, which he set up in June 2009,[1] and the director of the Nothing British campaign against the BNP.
A former journalist for The Sunday Times, Bethell was the Conservative candidate for Tooting in the 2005 general election, and also managing director of the London nightclub Ministry of Sound for over a decade.[2]
Bethell has worked for US Senator Robert Dole, EU Commissioner Lord Brittan and also for David Cameron during his campaign for the Conservative leadership.[3]
He is a former managing partner of Portland PR from 2006 until 2008 when he joined Policy Exchange as its communications director. [4] where he remained for less than three months.
Bethell’s father was a Conservative MEP and hereditary peer: Nicholas Bethell, the 4th Baron Bethell.
Affiliations
- Nothing British
- ConservativeHome - contributor
- Guido Fawkes - describes Bethell as a "good friend"
- Richard Smith -funded a major piece of Nothing British's research in November 2010 [5]
Publications
- James Bethell, Why I'm launching an online fightback against the poison of the BNP, The Daily Mail, 15 May 2009
Notes
- ↑ Our People, Westbourne Communications, accessed 6 July 2010.
- ↑ About Page, Nothing British, accessed 16 July 2010.
- ↑ Our People, Westbourne Communications, accessed 6 July 2010.
- ↑ David Singleton, Senior Tories join forces to form new lobbying agency, prweek.com, Thursday, 14 May 2009
- ↑ Tim Montgomerie, Introducing the A.N.T.I. voter (or, as I prefer to call them, the pound-stretchers), ConservativeHome blog, 27 November 2010
