Media Intelligence Partners
Media Intelligence Partners (MIP) is a London-based PR and lobbying firm.[1]
It provides services to a number of Brexit lobby groups.
Contents
Brexit role
MIP claims it was 'at the heart of a Leave campaign' in then run up to referendum on the UK's membership of the EU.
It says it 'worked with politicians from across the political spectrum, as well as senior business people and campaigning organisations, to bring about the referendum over a number of years.' It then 'worked intensively for four months of the campaign itself to win a historic victory'.[2]
Conservatives for Britain
MIP says it 'launched' Conservatives for Britain, the organisation that would go on to lead the Conservative campaign to leave the European Union. The launch appeared in the Sunday Telegraph on June 7th 2015. Conservatives for Britain was founded by MP Steve Baker and MEP David Campbell Bannerman and went on to attract the support of over 100 Conservative Party MPs.
Grassroots Out
MIP says it 'ran communications and strategy' for Grassroots Out in the four months to the June 2016 referendum. Four senior MIP employees were seconded to the campaign, directing the press office and providing 'high-level strategic advice' to the campaign’s key spokespeople. MIP also managed a nationwide Grassroots Out tour, featuring speeches from Chris Grayling, Owen Paterson and Liam Fox.Founded by Conservative MPs Peter Bone, Tom Pursglove and the Labour MP Kate Hoey, Grassroots Out claimed cross=party support, including from the now Brexit Secretary David Davis and Nigel Farage, the ex-leader of UKIP.
Leave Means Leave
Since the EU referendum, MIP has been working with Leave Means Leave 'to make sure the instructions of the British people are acted upon'. This has involved MIP communicating with ministers on Leave Means Leave's behalf (see 'lobbying clients' below).
Controversy
The Telegraph reported in 2009 that four Conservative MPs had claimed more than £66,000 in expenses for services provided by the firm.[3]
People
As of Nov 2017
- Nick Wood, CEO
- Alistair Thompson, managing director
- Matthew Walsh, director of campaigns
- Jago Pearson, director of Special Projects
- Beatrice Timpson, director of Corporate Affairs
- Edgar Johnson, Account Executive
- Jonathan Haslam, managing director, Pitch Perfect
- Elaine Thomas, communications consultant
- Mike Magan, senior consultant; served in senior foreign policy positions in the Bush Administration; Magan was also 'one of the principal architects in establishing' the Legatum Institute.[4]
Directors
Previous Directors
Arpana Gandhi | William Walter | Mark Florman | Michael Anthony Magan | Nicholas Roger Simon Longworth | Penny Mordaunt (the filing has 'Penny Mourdant' - a mis-spelling).[5]
Clients
MIP is secretive about who it works for. Unlike 80 per cent of the UK's lobbying industry, it is not a member of either industry body that runs a voluntary register that requires member firms list their clients.
However, it does list some clients 'past and present' on its website. These include: Leave Means Leave | Grassroots Out | Legatum Institute | Centre for Social Justice (MIP has worked with the think tanks since its launch) | Civitas | ResPublica | No2AV | Countryside Alliance | National Grammar School Association | Mothers at Home Matter | Conservative Woman | The Marriage Foundation | No Crossrail in Chelsea | Heritage Foundation | Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation | Actual Experience (analytics firm) | BT | Plusnet | Sovereign Capital | Housing & Finance Institute | Columbia Threadneedle Investments | Xantura (analytics firm)
Lobbying clients
The government's statutory register documents only those clients for whom MIP has directly contacted and lobbied a minister, or permanent secretary. Its listings are as follows:
April - June 2017
Addaction | Defend Free Speech | Leave Means Leave
Jan - March 2017
Team Britannia | Leave Means Leave
Oct - Dec 2016
July - Sept 2016
April - June 2016
None listed
January - March 2016
Actual Experience | Clean Fuel Ltd | Team Britannia [6]
October - December 2015
Actual Experience | Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) [7]
Talent Management Clients
circa 2014-2016
- UK 2020, right wing think tank set up by former environment secretary Owen Paterson in 2014
Circa 2012
Helen Boyle | Dr James D Boys | Harry Cole | Olivia Cole | Alex Deane | Jane Dutton | Amisha Ghadiali | Selena Gray | Daniel Hamilton | Allister Heath | John Higginson | Raheem Kassam | Karen Mann | Julia Manning | Willem Marx | Karis McLarty | Sonia Purnell | Jag Singh | Dr Timothy Stanley | Zoe Strimpel | John Walsh | Robert Welsh[8]
Circa December 2013
Annesley Abercor | Simon Antrobus | Ryan Bourne | Harry Cole | Olivia Cole | Alex Deane | Lottie Dexter | Richard Ferrer | Carly Florentine | Christian Guy | Daniel Hamilton | Allister Heath | John Higginson | Raheem Kassam | Karis McLarty | Alan Mendoza | Emma Nash | Keith Newman | Laura Perrins | Sonia Purnell | Jake Wallis Simons | Jag Singh | Peter Smith | Alexandra Swann | Dr Timothy Stanley | John Walsh[9]
Notes
- ↑ Home Media Intelligence Partners, archived at the Internet Archive, 26 May 2012, accessed 4 September 2013.
- ↑ Case Study: EU Referendum Campaign, MIP website, accessed Nov 2017
- ↑ Christopher Hope, Holly Watt and Jon Swaine, MPs' expenses: Tories paid Nick Wood, party’s former spin doctor, £66,000 for advice, The Telegraph, 26 May 2009.
- ↑ Mike Magan, MIP website, accessed Nov 2017
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Directors and Secretaries - Media Intelligence Partners, companycheck.co.uk, accessed 4 September 2013.
- ↑ Media Intelligence Partners profile 2016, Registrar of consultant lobbyists, accessed 3 May 2016
- ↑ Media Intelligence Partners profile 2015, Registrar of consultant lobbyists, accessed 8 February 2016
- ↑ Talent Management, Media Intelligence Partners, archived by the Internet Archive, 18 April 2012, accessed 4 September 2013.
- ↑ Media Intelligence Partners MIPeople, accessed 3 December 2013.
