New Harper strategist Crosby speaks about negative campaigning, election prep

Lynton Crosby's comments made at U.K.-based Patchwork Foundation last year seem to confirm the claim by a Conservative spokesperson that the party has been employing Mr. Crosby’s foreign talent since well before Stephen Harper’s campaign manager suddenly departed the leader’s national tour for the Ottawa war room.

PARLIAMENT HILL—The newly revealed brains behind Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s general election campaign, Australian political backroomer Lynton Crosby, believes it is the “tone” of negative campaigning that is important as well as the content of the attack.

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