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@PronouncedAlva
Oct 29 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
SCOOP A lobbyist who worked as Rachel Reeves’ election campaign adviser has facilitated high-level UK government access for Shein, the controversial Chinese fast-fashion firm which is seeking a major listing on the London stock exchange.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Kamella Hudson accompanied Donald Tang, the head of Shein, to two meetings with Treasury ministers last week to discuss its hopes of a London listing that could value the fast fashion giant at about £50 billion.

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Hudson arranged the meetings - one with the new investment minister, Poppy Gustafsson, and another with the City minister, Tulip Siddiq - on her client’s behalf and was his sole adviser at the meetings. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The meetings come less than a month after Hudson was pictured accompanying the Chancellor to media interviews at Labour conference in September and after working as her campaign adviser over the election.
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Kamella Hudson was loaned by her lobbying firm, FGS Global, to advise Reeves during the election campaign and volunteered for her at Labour conference in Sept.

She has been photographed accompanying the Chancellor to media interviews - this is in May.
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Keir Starmer promised in January to put an end to the “revolving doors between government and the companies they regulate.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The Shein listing is controversial because it has faced allegations — which it denies — of using cotton tied to forced labour in the Chinese region of Xinjiang.

Shein has said that it has “zero tolerance against forced labor.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
FGS said that Hudson volunteered for Labour earlier this year, and she has never been a govt employee. It declined to comment on its clients. Hudson didn’t respond to requests for comment. Shein and the Treasury declined to comment. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The Times' @GeorgeGreenwood @PeterKGeoghegan first reported Hudson’s link to Reeves, and that Shein is a FGS client.

It wasn't previously known that Hudson is lobbying for the Chinese firm or the extent of the access she has facilitated
@GeorgeGreenwood bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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