Jonathan Mendelsohn, Baron Mendelsohn

Jonathan Neil Mendelsohn, Baron Mendelsohn (born December 30, 1966 in the United Kingdom ) is a British lobbyist and organizer of the Labor Party . In 2007 he was appointed director of the party's general campaign funds.

Life

With Neal Lawson and Ben Lucas , Mendelsohn founded the political lobbying firm LLM Communications in 1997 , which had good connections to the New Labor government of Prime Minister Tony Blair . He was also a spokesperson and lobbyist for the gaming company PartyGaming .

Mendelsohn wrote to the controversial financier of the Labor Party, David Abrahams , that he was one of the "strongest supporters" of Labor. In 1998, his and Derek Draper's statements were taped in which both of them boasted to entrepreneurial investigative journalist Greg Palast that they could give clients access to ministers and tax breaks; this scandal was given the name “lobby gate”. Draper denied the allegations. In the same affair, an undercover journalist turned to Mendelsohn, claiming he was a representative of American energy companies trying to circumvent environmental laws. Despite the assertion by LLM Communications that "we believe that there will be a new kind of 'ethical winner' 'who will prove that companies are no longer operating in a moral vacuum," Mendelsohn advised the reporter to formulate the corporate plans in a more environmentally friendly way, because Tony Blair is very concerned about a green image.

In 2007 Mendelsohn donated funds for Peter Hain's campaign for the post of deputy leader of the Labor Party.

Mendelsohn sits on the board of Directors of Progress , a New Labor political group, and is a trustee of the UK welfare organization of the Holocaust Educational Trust and the UK branches of the non-profit New Israel Fund . He is also the former chairman of the parliamentary group of the Labor Friends of Israel , the Finchley United Synagogue and the Union of Jewish Students .

According to the Daily Telegraph , Mendelsohn is closely associated with the North London Jewish community and is a good friend of Lord Levy , who was at the center of an affair in 2006 in which money was reported to have flowed to political parties for peer-to-peer recognition.

On September 5, 2013, Mendelsohn was raised as a life peer with the title Baron Mendelsohn , of Finchley in the London Borough of Barnet , to the personal nobility and has been a member of the House of Lords since then.

Mendelsohn is married and has four children. His wife Nicola née Clyne, now Lady Mendelsohn, was named Facebook's Vice President for Europe, the Middle East and Africa in May 2013 . She was previously the Chair of the Karmarama Advertising Agency , Vice Chair of the Gray London Communications Agency and President of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Companies House WebCHeck - Progress Limited ( English ) Companies House. Company No. 03109611. Retrieved June 16, 2012.
2. ↑ Labor appoints election director (English) , BBC. August 9, 2007. Retrieved June 17, 2012. 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Christopher Hope: Jon Mendelsohn profile: a real Mr Fix-It (en) , The Daily Telegraph . November 29, 2007. Retrieved November 30, 2007. 
4. ^ Francis Wheen: Social justice - that's so old Labor (English) , The Guardian. February 7, 2001. Retrieved November 29, 2007. 
5. ↑ Comment is Free ... but journos are scared: Follow The Money .
6. ↑ Party Gaming communicator now Labor Party Fundraiser ( Memento of the original dated November 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ 'You're not up to the job Gordon': Cameron launches blistering attack over donor scandal . ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Evening Standard, November 28 
8. ^ Greg Palast : Britain for Sale ( en ) May 1, 2005. Retrieved November 29, 2007.
9. ↑ You must remember this (en) , The Observer. April 1, 2001. Retrieved November 29, 2007. 
10. ↑ Draper accuses Observer of entrapment (English) , BBC . July 7, 1998. Retrieved November 29, 2007. 
11. ↑ LLM brochure
12. ↑ Jon Mendelsohn (en) . In: Man In The Eye , Private Eye, December 7, 2007. 
13. ^ Colin Brown: Brown aide in the frame as police are asked to investigate donations (en) , The Independent . November 30, 2007. Archived from the original on December 1, 2007 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved November 30, 2007.  
14. ^ Staff and Trustees ( English ) Holocaust Educational Trust. Archived from the original on May 4, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 17, 2012. 
15. ^ NIF UK Board of Trustees ( English ) New Israel Fund. Archived from the original on October 27, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 17, 2012. 
16. ↑ London Gazette . No. 60621, HMSO, London, September 9, 2013, p. 17761 ( PDF , English).
17. ↑ London Gazette . No. 60637, HMSO, London, September 24, 2013, p. 18815 ( PDF , English).
18. ↑ Katherine Rushton: Facebook names UK's Nicola Mendelsohn as head of European arm (English) . In: The Telegraph , May 7, 2013. Retrieved June 27, 2013. 
19. ↑ Jennifer Lipman: Advertising chief Mendelsohn: UK must beat Mad Men (English) . In: Jewish Chronicle , April 7, 2011. Retrieved July 20, 2011.