16 Facts About Spencer Livermore

Spencer Elliot Livermore, Baron Livermore was born on 12 June 1975 and is a strategy and communications professional.

Spencer Livermore was previously Director of Strategy at communications consultancy Teneo Blue Rubicon - where he built and had Board responsibility for their Strategic Consulting division.

Spencer Livermore served as a senior adviser on four General Election campaigns: 1997,2001,2005, and 2015, with The Guardian describing him as one of the most experienced election campaigners in the Labour Party.

Spencer Livermore served on the Lords Economic Affairs Select Committee from 2016 to 2019.

Spencer Livermore has been on leave of absence from the House of Lords since July 2020 but is still entitled to use his title.

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Spencer Livermore grew up in Wickford, Essex and attended Beauchamps High School and Basildon College, before taking a BSc at the London School of Economics, graduating in 1996.

When he returned to the Treasury after the 2001 general election, Spencer Livermore was appointed as Special Adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Spencer Livermore helped run the 2005 general election campaign, acting as Brown's campaign strategist, and working closely with Philip Gould, after which Spencer Livermore was appointed as the most senior of Brown's advisers, as Chief Strategy Adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Spencer Livermore devised the strategy for Gordon Brown's leadership transition in 2007 and Brown's subsequent first 100 days.

Spencer Livermore was the first of Gordon Brown's advisers to advocate holding an early General Election in the autumn of 2007, writing the initial strategy memo to the Prime Minister setting out this course of action.

Spencer Livermore was the first of Gordon Brown's senior advisers to leave Downing Street, and was replaced in Number 10 by David Muir from WPP.

In September 2009 it was reported that Spencer Livermore had been asked by Peter Mandelson to return to Downing Street as Chief of Staff, and by Gordon Brown to run the planning of Labour's election campaign, but that he had declined both offers.

Spencer Livermore has said little publicly about his time in Downing Street, although he gave an interview to Steve Richards on BBC Radio 4 in September 2010, setting out the events leading up to the 'non-election' of 2007.

Spencer Livermore has written on political strategy for the Guardian newspaper.

Spencer Livermore set up and had Board responsibility for the agency's Strategic Consulting division, developing insight-based communication strategies for multinational companies.

In 2014 Spencer Livermore briefly returned to the political arena when he was appointed the Labour Party's General Election Campaign Director for its unsuccessful 2015 general election.