Thisislondon.co.uk, the website of the London Evening Standard, is running an interesting article about Cabinet Minister Peter Hain and the lobbyist who ran his recent campaign for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. It seems that Tesco is a big client of this lobbyist - and Peter Hain has shown a lot of support for Tesco recently. Anyway, read on here and make up your own mind....
UPDATE: Well, you can't make up your own mind. The article has gone, and other links to it now point here, to a much less controversial story. The introduction has been archived by Google here...
FURTHER UPDATE: A political blog run by BBC Wales' David Cornock may have got to the bottom of the story. Apparently the article originally appeared in the Mail on Sunday and accused a political lobbying company of arranging for Peter Hain to visit a Tesco supermarket, which both the Government and the lobbyists deny. In a further twist, the 'clients' page of the lobbyists, Morgan Allen Moore, is 'currently being updated'.
Of course, we are aware that Tesco uses political lobbyists - we know that they've talked to local prospective parliamentary candidates in St Albans for example. However successful they may be at a national level though, they've not managed to swing any political support Tesco's way here. No idea why it wastes £1000s per day on these consultants!
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