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Inside Corbyn’s game-changing election campaign
Former deputy director of strategy for Labour STEVE HOWELL talks to the Star about how the party created a narrative around Corbyn to propel its election campaign forward
Former deputy director of strategy for Labour Steve Howell

APPOINTED the deputy director of strategy and communications in the Labour leadership team in February 2017, Steve Howell had an insider’s view of the most extraordinary general election of recent times.

Cardiff-based Howell was the chief executive of Freshwater, a communications consultancy he founded in 1997, when he got the call from his old friend Seumas Milne, Jeremy Corbyn’s director for communications and strategy.

“Politics is not a spectator sport,” he recounts Milne telling him in his new book Game Changer: Eight Weeks That Transformed British Politics.

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