Something I did not know but does not shock me in the leastest.
Minister worked as spin doctor for tobacco giant that paid workers ÂŁ15 a month (2015)
Priti Patel worked for PR firm Shandwick on improving BATâs image over Burma factory, and also lobbied MEPs against EU tobacco regulations.The employment minister, Priti Patel, was part of a team of spin doctors paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to help a tobacco giant counter negative publicity, including that surrounding its joint venture with one of the worldâs most brutal military regimes.
Documents unearthed by the Observer shine new light on Patelâs work for Shandwick, a lobbying and PR firm that worked for British American Tobacco (BAT) in the early years of this century.
The documents, released by BAT following a legal action, show that Patel was one of seven employees used by Shandwick on the account. One of her jobs was to lobby MEPs against the introduction of the EU tobacco control directive, which was introduced shortly after the new millennium. She was charged with ensuring that a letter from the BAT chairman at the time, Martin Broughton
, outlining his objection to the directive, was faxed to every MEP.
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