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LLM Communications
IndustryPolitical lobbying
Founded1997; 27 years ago (1997)
FoundersNeal Lawson
Ben Lucas
Jonathan Mendelsohn
Number of employees
20

LLM Communications was a political lobbying firm founded in 1997 by Neal Lawson, Ben Lucas, and Jonathan Mendelsohn. It had 20 employees and 40 clients. In July 1998, LLM was reported to have saved Tesco £40 million by persuading ministers to abandon plans for a supermarket car-park tax.[1] Lawson left the company at the end of 2004, having become "uneasy" with what "New Labour" was doing within six months of its 1997 election, but remaining long enough to ensure that it would survive. While working for LLM, Jonathan Mendelsohn was a spokesman and lobbyist for the gambling company PartyGaming.[2]

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  1. ^ Wheen, Francis (7 February 2001). "Social justice - that's so old Labour". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 November 2007.
  2. ^ Party Gaming communicator now Labour Party Fundraiser Archived November 4, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
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