Daily Diary

Camerons' true blues

Posted 12/05/2008 by The Daily Diary

Politics and the law are pretty comfortable bedfellows in US, where firms spend millions supporting their favoured candidates and frequently lure former administrators back into private practice.

In the UK the bed-hopping is altogether more uneasy – Lord Goldsmith and Debevoise notwithstanding – hence The Diary’s consternation upon hearing of some shameless politicking going on at one major City firm.

Your correspondent this week heard (from some very good sources) that more than one partner at CMS Cameron McKenna – hardly the most blue-blooded of City firms – was literally doing the rounds Zimbabwean-style and instructing their underlings to vote Boris in the recent mayoral election. And it obviously worked, although how grateful millions of Londoners will be in a few months’ time remains to be seen.

While it remains unclear whether nervous NQs were frog-marched to the polling stations under partner-level supervision, should recently-departed chief Dick Tyler consider a run for mayor in 2012 he can probably count on a fair bit of support from the Camerons ranks.