Thread by @RespectIsVital

Mark Francois MP has been paying a consultancy company called Westminster Digital Ltd, formerly Westminster Analytics Ltd, thousands of £s over the past two years.

They've no accounts since Dec 18, £4k turnover.... & deleted all their clients from website.

Cc @peterjukes

2/ Their "Government" work is listed as a Boris Johnson Election video, therefore a Tory Party PR campaign not Government, and a Video on an Australia/UK Free Trade Agreement.

westminsterdigital.co.uk/government/

3/ Westminster Digital's "Corporate" Clients:

Lloyds Banking
Adam Smith Institute
Australian High Commission UK
The Spectator Magazine....
westminsterdigital.co.uk/corporate/

4/ They've definitely have a Cambridge Analytica vibe going on @peterjukes.

"Most videos are only seen by clients constituents." Uber targeting on a mass scale.

gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/artic…

5/ Westminster Digital's CEO has also just launched Washington Digital.

Not much info in their planned US operation.

6/ According to the company, “Johnny [Mercer] is the first one we actually made a minister”

AND

“We worked with Penny [Mordaunt] when she was in international development & then she moved to defence & I'll take all the credit for that.”

CONT

7/ “We would go to the events and, of course, we moved to the Ministry Of Defence when she did – we got to do a lot of the military events. We were basically like one of her special advisers: our team would go along to any event with her"

That's some influence @peterjukes...

8/ "It’s an impressive clientele to have built up since November 2017."

However, their last accounts from December 2018 show they only had a turnover of just over £5k. No Accounts since.... Sudden boom in 2019 and late accounts.

9/ "No definitive list is available, the company has, at the very least, done some work for Boris Johnson, Amber Rudd, Sajid Javid, Matt Hancock, Gavin Williamson, Penny Mordaunt, Michael Gove and many more, as well as a handful of MPs from other parties."

Very unaccountable