Labour leadership contender Angela Rayner’s boyfriend has joined a PR whose main clients include cryptocurrency firms. Should be interesting if Rayner enters government again – or leads it…
Ex-Labour MP Sam Tarry has in recent weeks begun work for City of London PR firm NorthPoint Strategy. Its clients include blockchain firm Polygon, the UK Cryptoasset Business Council, and Andreessen Horowitz. Whose often liberal, deregulatory goals run counter to the ideas of most Labour MPs…
Tarry, who penned a diary piece for the New Statesman yesterday, did not mention his new gig in the magazine. The firm on the other hand said:
“We are excited to welcome Sam Tarry as a Senior Advisor at NorthPoint Strategy.
As a former Labour Party MP, Shadow Minister and trade union leader, he has a deep understanding of the inner workings of The Labour Party and the wider political landscape.
An experienced campaigner, Sam has played key roles in Labour leadership campaigns and previously served as President of the Centre for Labour and Social Studies.
We’re thrilled to have Sam on board and look forward to the expertise and perspective he will bring to our clients.”
Labour is taking numerous actions against cryptocurrency and has moved to block crypto donations in a cynical attempt to starve Reform. The PLP is even more rabid than the government…
Tarry is said to brief often for his partner Angela. Rayner’s memorandum to Reeves containing various ‘ideas’ for tax rises, which was leaked to the Telegraph’s Ben Riley-Smith, caused a big row in government. In Tarry’s diary piece he reflects on his podcast, launched in January and still listened to by no one:
“I was chuffed to have got three brilliant guests on the show: Ben Riley-Smith from the Telegraph, the New Statesman’s Tom McTague and the previous, long-standing editor of the Statesman, Jason Cowley (now at the Sunday Times).”
The Guardian has attempted to level its guns at Tarry’s new PR firm before. What will Labour MPs make of Rayner’s man?
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”