Posts tagged: Roland Rudd

Pro-European City types cook up new British advocacy group / political party - part 5

Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 9:48 am

Splashed across the front page of today's The Guardian is a story about how Open Britain - the advocacy group chaired by PR supremo Roland Rudd and backed by Tory MP Anna Soubry - is urging pro-remain voters in 20 seats held by prominent Brexit-supporting MPs to oust their incumbent but vulnerable representatives in parliament. Here is the link:..

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Pro-European City types cook up new British advocacy group / political party - part 4

Tuesday, 18 April 2017, 9:13 pm

Whether you work in UK financial markets or not clearly the biggest news event of the day was Theresa May's decision to call a snap general election.

What I'm wondering, though, is whether this bunch of centre ground, pro-European politicians, businessmen and City types - led by PR supremo Roland Rudd, founder of Finsbury - will break cover before the general election with their new political party or wait until Labour is decimated on June 8?..

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