MacKay, MP for Bracknell and a former parliamentary aide to David Cameron, will become an international consultant and strategic adviser in the global PR agency's UK public affairs team. Earlier this week, Cameron used a major speech to lay into lobbyists. He said: "It's an issue that crosses party lines and has tainted our politics for too long...an issue that exposes the far-too-cosy relationship between politics, government, business and money. I'm talking about lobbying - and we all know how it works. The lunches, the hospitality, the quiet word in your ear, the ex-ministers and ex-advisers for hire, helping big business find the right way to get its way. In this party, we believe in competition, not cronyism. We believe in market economics, not crony capitalism. So we must be the party that sorts all this out." Right.
Andrew 'one suit' Mackay
Tory MP Andrew Mackay to join Burson-Marsteller lobbying arm
Interesting to note Burson-Marsteller's mission statement: our mission is to create superior value.
and their code of conduct which includes: We will not accept for our personal benefit goods or services of more than nominal value from suppliers, potential suppliers or other third parties. haha!
Burson-Marsteller.com
