“Forward of the Worldwide Funding Summit on 14 October, this assembly will present a chance for you, alongside different U.Ok. enterprise leaders, to listen to from Ian in regards to the authorities’s funding priorities, and so that you can share your ideas and concepts,” the invite learn.
Murphy and his lobbying agency Arden Methods are seen as main energy gamers within the new administration.
The previous Scottish Labour chief, who served in Gordon Brown’s Cupboard, constructed up goodwill with celebration figures within the run-up to Labour’s landslide win, serving to the celebration to run enterprise occasions and placed on fundraisers for candidates.
A number of MPs benefited from a joint Arden/Budweiser fundraiser through the marketing campaign, in keeping with the British parliament’s official register of pursuits.
The agency has sponsored two successive Labour Enterprise Conferences.
Its brand was plastered throughout Labour’s wider celebration convention in Liverpool final week, and its panels bagged appearances from heavy hitters within the Cupboard together with Well being Secretary Wes Streeting, Enterprise Secretary Jonathan Reynolds and chief of the Home of Commons Lucy Powell. One rival public affairs skilled joked that the Liverpool gathering needs to be dubbed “Arden convention.”