Obama campaign advisor, David Axelrod. Photo: wiki commons.

The Guardian – Barack Obama’s most influential adviser during two presidential victories has been hired to advise Labour on its 2015 election campaign, ensuring that Ed Miliband will put inequality and the break between family finances and economic growth at the centre of his election campaign.

David Axelrod has been given the title of senior strategic adviser and told the Guardian that Labour’s political and economic analysis was similar to the central themes deployed in Obama’s successful re-election campaign.

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