Dave’s political fixer pal turns a £500,000 profit
David Cameron isn’t the only one who has been coining it since leaving downing Street. So, too, has his tennis partner and former Tory Party chair andrew Feldman. indeed, i can disclose that his strategic advisory business andrew Feldman associates has made a profit of £543,175 in its latest accounts.
Lord Feldman of Elstree — often described as Cameron’s oldest political friend — lives in a £6million house yards from the Beckhams in London’s leafy Holland Park. He set up his business in 2016 just ten days after Cameron announced he would be leaving No 10 after the EU referendum.
Much of the income for Feldman associates derives from the
Messina Group, the consultancy firm founded by U.S. political strategist Jim Messina, who headed President Obama’s successful 2012 re-election campaign.
in 2015, as Tory Party chairman, Feldman paid Messina nearly £400,000 for working on Cameron’s election campaign. Just a year later, eyebrows were raised when Feldman was appointed a paid adviser to the Messina Group. although he quit the Messina payroll in January last year, he has since quietly rejoined.
Feldman is also on the senior advisory board of TowerBrook Capital Partners, a transatlantic investment management company. its founder and co-chief executive, Ramez Sousou, gave £525,000 to the Tories while Feldman was party chairman.
Feldman, who has eight directorships plus six other advisory roles, was unavailable to comment on his return to the Messina fold.
Luckily, he has been spreading some of his largesse around the Cameron family. He is a shareholder in the fashion company Cefinn set up by Samantha Cameron, whose husband earned £120,000-an-hour giving speeches about Brexit after he left No 10.