Jamie Lyons is a political communications and campaigns specialist. He has advised clients such as Waitrose, Centrica, TalkTalk and the alcohol and nuclear industries on complex regulatory challenges, critical political issues and threats and improving their reputations with political audiences. He spent 15 years as a journalist and was deputy political editor of the News of the World working from Parliament on agenda-setting stories and major campaigns and travelling the world with prime ministers and senior cabinet members. Before that he set up the Press Association’s coverage of the Welsh Assembly and advised senior civil servants on media relations.