A self-help book for business people terrified of appearing before MPs shows how much more formidable select committees have become.
Scott Colvin worked for the Conservative Party under William Hague, Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard. He is now a political consultant at Finsbury. Let’s begin with an obvious fact. The general public distrust politicians. This has long been the case, but the expenses scandal in 2009 magnified the utter contempt in which voters hold their representatives. […]
Scott Colvin worked for the Conservative Party under William Hague, Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard. He is now a political consultant. There are many upsides to my job as a political consultant in the private sector, but attending Labour Party conferences isn’t one of them. But despite my political differences with the other side, […]
Peter Cuthbertson reviews the lobbyist Scott Colvin’s book How to Use Politicians to Get What You Want