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Lynton Crosby: can the ‘Lizard of Oz’ Win the Election for the Conservatives?

Lynton Crosby: can the ‘Lizard of Oz’ Win the Election for the Conservatives?

Shapps publicly backed David Cameron's bid for the management of the Conservative Party, seconding Cameron's nomination papers. And, since Johnson’s resignation, associates of Crosby have been exhausting at work spreading their affect - advising the management campaigns of Kemi Badenoch, Penny Mordaunt, Nadhim Zahawi, and now Liz Truss.

CT Group was co-founded by Crosby, the Australian strategist credited as the mastermind behind a sequence of Conservative election campaigns. Bashagha is supported by Russia and the mercenary Wagner Group as it seeks the army overthrow of the federal government of National Unity (GNU) in Tripoli, established last 12 months via a UN-led process.

In late 2004, a month after serving to Howard to his fourth and final election victory, Crosby agreed to develop into the Conservatives’ campaign director in London. As most clearly demonstrated by the continued US election campaigns, a campaign is more than a set of parts, but rather a coordinated system of actions that brings together the latest methods from multiple disciplines, ranging from opinion research to digital advocacy, and all the things in between.

"Not Tim Bell. Crosby is both a crafter of messages for the party and an enforcer." At Conservative marketing campaign headquarters and at 10 Downing Street, in the House of Commons and out within the constituencies, in reality, nearly at any time when Tory MPs and even ministers communicate, Crosby’s precept of "message discipline" is being applied.

In the 2015 UK General Election, Sir Lynton steered the Conservative Party to a historic victory. And, though they weren't significantly political, like most rural people, they have been instinctive supporters of the Liberals - Australia's conservative social gathering.

But top Tories worry "it’s going to be a really expensive headache" due to the quantity of influence Mr Crosby has over party HQ. Liberals in NSW and Queensland are mulling a shift away from influential pollster CT Group, formerly often called Crosby Textor, out of worry the firm has lost touch with younger voters and women.

In December 2013, Tim Bell, the famously persuasive PR man who helped promote Margaret Thatcher to Britons through the 70s and 80s, advised me that the Tories were "obviously caught in the Lynton Crosby technique: be vile, and that’ll do".

"The response is to go deeper than what you might be seeing on the Tv, have a look at where your markets are," said Crosby. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you will get entry to all of our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer adverts, loyalty rewards and rather more.

Accompanying this measure should be "A reform of the whips; Improved rewards for loyal peers and discipline for these peers who don't turn up together with a ‘name and shame’ league desk of non-attendant peers".

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