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BIZARRE: Ct group - You Need To See This

Lobbying firm pressed for details about payments to journalists for favourable stories

MPs and others condemn behaviour of CT Group, which offered cash for positive coverage of clients

The Guardian - UK

Lobbying giant filmed offering reporter payment for flattering client coverage in national press

Exclusive: Guardian investigation of CT Group uncovers practice that appears to seek hidden influence over public opinion

The Guardian - UK

Former British army chief joins Lynton Crosby’s lobbying firm

Gen Sir Mark Carleton-Smith will support work on opportunities arising from Aukus defence pact

The Guardian - UK

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'We'd be getting it from both sides, which was horrendous': Australian political players on our brutal refugee policies

In September 2017, I interviewed a senior figure within the Australian Labor Party in his office in Canberra. At one point in our discussion he told me:

The Conversation

Tory-linked lobbying firm agreed to help swing DRC election, leak suggests

Exclusive: CT Group, co-owned by Lynton Crosby, planned secretive African campaign on behalf of Canadian mining giant

The Guardian - UK

Lynton Crosby firm lobbied ministers while advising Boris Johnson

Exclusive: CT Group’s activities on behalf of energy, tobacco and property firms raise questions over potential conflict of interest

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss’s chief of staff still owns 10% of Lynton Crosby’s lobbying firm

Exclusive: Mark Fullbrook’s stake in CT Group while holding Downing Street role creates potential conflict of interest

The Guardian - UK

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Liz Truss gives 'full support' to chief of staff interviewed as witness by FBI in probe

Downing Street said the Prime Minister was 100% behind her chief of staff Mark Fullbrook after it emerged he had been interviewed by the FBI as a witness to an alleged criminal plot to bribe an American politician and influence a US election

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss backs No 10 chief of staff caught up in FBI bribery probe

Mark Fullbrook has PM’s ‘full support’, says No 10 after details of witness interview emerge

The Independent UK

Liz Truss’ chief of staff is a witness in FBI bribery probe

A senior member of U.K. Prime Minster Liz Truss’ government is cooperating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of a bribery investigation that led to the arrest of Puerto Rico’s former leader.

Tribune News Service

Liz Truss’s chief of staff questioned by FBI in inquiry about election bribe

Mark Fullbrook is cooperating with the FBI and denies strongly any wrongdoing

The Independent UK

Poll shows 54% against Boris Johnson drawing up resignation honours list

Exclusive: House of Lords ‘bursting at seams’ and reform is needed, say campaigners

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer urged not to abandon pledge to abolish House of Lords

Exclusive: Gordon Brown warns plans to flood upper chamber with dozens of Tory peers proves urgent need for reform

The Guardian - UK

‘We needed Dave and George to lean on Boris’: Uber’s battle for London

The US firm used Tory connections to wage a relentless UK lobbying campaign, leaked files show

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MPs to raise concerns over No 10 advisers with links to gambling industry

MPs write letter expressing fear that policy advisers may be opposing regulation of gambling industry

The Guardian - UK

Election guru Lynton Crosby attending PM’s morning meetings

Greater role for head of polling company coincides with prime minister’s shift to the right

Evening Standard

Londoner’s Diary: Was Will Smith a slap in the face for comedy?

COMEDIANS are worried about Will Smith’s slapping of Chris Rock. “Absolutely thrilled that the Oscars incident has already led to people threatening to come to my gigs and punch me!” wrote comic Nish Kumar, pictured right.

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