A fellow presidential aide described Jim Messina as “the most powerful person in Washington you’ve never heard of”.
The Conservative Party has hired Barack Obama’s campaign manager Jim Messina for its general election campaign team, BBC Newsnight has learned.
Sources confirmed that he would act as a campaign strategy adviser to the Conservative party.
A lifelong Democrat, Mr Messina masterminded the US president’s successful 2012 re-election campaign.
The political parties in Westminster are readying themselves for the general election, now under two years away.
The Secular Jurist 