Fiona Stanton
Partner
Political campaigns specialist with unrivalled experience and track record of getting results
I’m at the heart of building our unique cross-party campaigns business as part of the senior Public Affairs and Campaigns team.
I also help lead our client work in this area, including advising on everything from general elections to Labour advisory work. I work closely with all our campaign clients – helping to build campaigns that harness and shape the political narrative and put our clients and their issues at the centre of influence. Having run over 100 campaigns in my career, I particularly enjoy bringing that campaign mentality to our work with corporate clients, focusing on the opportunities in the current political environment in the UK, the North of England and Scotland.
My background is in political campaigning, working at a senior level for Labour in power and in opposition with five different Labour leaders, at six general elections and four referendums. I worked as a Senior and Executive Director for Labour, running the regions and nations operations across the UK, was interim General Secretary in Scotland after the Independence Referendum and Director in the North of England for over 10 years. I then led on policy, advocacy, and cross-party campaigns for the Northern Powerhouse Partnership before joining 56º North in 2021.
And… I love swimming in the sea even though where I live with my family, in the North East of England, it’s always freezing. I’m a Glaswegian who grew up on the west coast of Scotland in Troon, so I’m used to it.
