CITY WHISPERS: Cheeky prize for Nigel Farage in PR marketing campaign contest
A plethora of journalists, PR and political professionals gathered final week to rub shoulders at a press awards ceremony hosted by communications outfit Pagefield.
Among the gongs on provide was ‘Best Campaign of the Past 12 Months’, which was described as sitting on the ‘coronary heart of British journalism’.
So attendees had been considerably shocked when the winner wasn’t a journalist in any respect.
Scoop: Nigel Farage gained the award for his ‘marketing campaign’ towards the choice by NatWest-owned Coutts to shut his checking account
Instead, it was former Ukip chief and Brexit architect Nigel Farage who scooped the award for his ‘marketing campaign’ towards the choice by NatWest-owned Coutts to shut his checking account.
The debacle precipitated an enormous PR disaster for NatWest and in the end led to the resignation of boss Alison Rose in addition to Coutts head Peter Flavel.
Of course, Nigel was not current to just accept the award as he’s languishing within the Australian jungle, showing within the newest collection of I’m A Celeb.
Time for some celebratory kangaroo anus maybe?
T-shirt fundamentalist switches to carrying a go well with
T-shirt fundamentalist Greg Jackson made a concession to formality finally week’s Global Investment Summit at Hampton Court by carrying a go well with jacket and polo neck high.
Luckily nobody appeared to note the purple wine stain on the Octopus power boss’s jacket from pre-summit drinks the evening earlier than – which was blamed on Kamal Ahmed, editor of the Gen-Z-focused model The News Movement.
Break out the Vanish!
Changes at Revolut
There had been some adjustments on the board of fintech agency Revolut because the group introduced that Romanian tech entrepreneur Dan Teodosiu could be becoming a member of as a non-executive director.
Teodosiu counts Silicon Valley giants Google and Microsoft amongst his former employers.
His final job was tech boss at Onfido, an identification verification agency based mostly in London.
Perhaps he will help Revolut get its UK banking licence, which it claimed in March could be granted ‘imminently’. We make it 278 days and counting.
Whispers notes that the Revolut board consists of only one lady – Deloitte alumna Caroline Britton – so maybe subsequent time they recruit they might hunt for some gender steadiness.
Checking Labour’s breakfast receipts
Labour chief Sir Keir Starmer and Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves hosted a breakfast final Monday with about 35 bosses and executives in what some within the City deemed an try and steal thunder from the Government’s Global Investment Summit on the identical day.
Those attending included Sir William Lewis, the newly appointed head of US newspaper The Washington Post.
One wonders whether or not Starmer and Reeves had been extra tight-lipped than ordinary round Lewis, who as editor of The Daily Telegraph in 2009 led the staff that broke the MP bills scandal.
This was earlier than Starmer and Reeves’ time in workplace.
But Whispers expects the receipts had been checked additional fastidiously.
