http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article3815718.ece
No 10 faces questions over ‘tobacco lobby links’
Lynton Crosby was appointed to construct the next Tory election campaign
Times photographer Tom Pilston
Lynton Crosby was appointed to construct the next Tory election campaign Times photographer Tom Pilston
Alex Ralph and Francis Elliott
Last updated at 12:01AM, July 13 2013
A lobbying consultancy run by David Cameron’s election guru helped the world’s biggest tobacco company to avoid moves to make cigarettes less attractive to young people.
Ministers effectively abandoned yesterday efforts to introduce plain packaging for tobacco products. But hours later it emerged that Lynton Crosby’s company, CTF, had been advising Philip Morris Ltd in Britain since November.
The Australian-born Mr Crosby was appointed as a strategy adviser to the Conservative Party late last year, based on his reputation for securing election victories for the former Australian Prime Minister John Howard, and Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London.
The U-turn