POWELL ON POLITICS: Chris Powell, the chairman of BMP DDB - Labour’s advertising agency from 1972 to 1997 - has written a book describing the turbulent relationship between the Left and the ’low-level, tedious’ world of advertising
By ANDREW GRICE, the political editor of T Friday, 30 June 2000 12:00AM
Chris Powell’s involvement in the Labour Party’s advertising goes back to 1972, when chaotic strategy meetings were held at Tony Benn’s Holland Park house over endless mugs of Benn’s trademark tea.
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