Jonathan Mendelsohn

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

With Neal Lawson and Ben Lucas founded Mendelsohn 1997, the political lobbying be operated company LLM Communications, which had close connections to the New Labour government of Prime Minister Tony Blair. He was also a spokesman and lobbyist for the gambling company PartyGaming.

Mendelsohn wrote the controversial financier of the Labour Party, David Abraham, that he was one of Labour's " strongest supporters ". 1998 Derek Draper and his statements were recorded on tape, in which both by comparison with the issuing entrepreneurs investigative journalist Greg Palast boasted that they could their clients with access to ministers and tax breaks; This scandal was called "Lobby Gate". Draper denied the accusations. In the same affair also a concealed working journalist turned to Mendelsohn, claiming to be a representative of American energy companies who wanted to circumvent environmental laws. Despite the protestations of LLM Communications that " we believe that there would be a new kind of ' ethical winners ' who will prove that companies no longer acted in a moral vacuum ", recommended Mendelsohn reporter, environmentally friendly to formulate the Group plans sounding, since Tony Blair was very concerned about a green image.

2007 donated Mendelsohn funds for Peter Hains election for the post of deputy party leader of the Labour Party.

Mendelsohn sits on the Board of Progress, a political interest group of New Labour and is a Trustee of the British charity of the Holocaust Educational Trust and settled in the UK branches of non-profit organization New Israel Fund. He is also the former chairman of the parliamentary group of the Labour Friends of Israel, of Finchley United Synagogue and the Union of Jewish Students.

According to the Daily Telegraph Mendelsohn is closely associated with the Jewish community north of London and a good friend of Lord Levy, who in 2006 was in the middle of an affair, should have flowed in money to political parties for the presentation of the peerage.

On September 5, 2013 Mendelsohn was raised as a life peer with the title Baron Mendelsohn, of Finchley in the London Borough of Barnet, in the peerage.

Mendelsohn is married and has four children. His wife Nicola born Clyne, now Lady Mendelsohn, was appointed in May 2013 to Facebook's Vice President for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Previously she was the chairman of the advertising agency Karmarama, deputy chairman of the communications agency Grey London and President of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising.

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  • Life peer
  • Member of the House of Lords
  • Politicians ( 21st century)
  • Labour Member
  • Lobbyist
  • Briton
  • Born in 1966
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