Editing Neil Hamilton (politician) (section)

====Strategy Network International====
In June 1990, Hamilton was recruited by the right-wing Monday Club activist [[Derek Laud]] to work for Strategy Network International, a firm specifically created to lobby against anti-apartheid movements and economic sanctions and for [[apartheid South Africa]]'s 'transitional government' of [[Namibia]] set up in defiance of UN Resolution 435 on Namibian independence. Derek Laud was an ex-Monday Club activist and protégé of Hamilton's friend Michael Brown, who offered Hamilton a fee of £8,000 per year. Hamilton failed to register the paid-for consultancy. Hamilton took free trips to South Africa in the company of Brown.<ref>Patricia Wynn Davies, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/the-attack-on-sleaze-how-apartheid-regime-set-out-to-woo-tories-patricia-wynn-davies-tells-the-story-of-the-firm-which-gave-mps-a-south-african-perspective-1444979.html "The Attack on Sleaze: How apartheid regime set out to woo Tories"], ''The Independent'', 26 October 1994<br />- David Leigh & Ed Vulliamy, ''Sleaze, the Corruption of Parliament'', page 136, {{ISBN|185702-694-2}}<br />- [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmselect/cmstnprv/030i/sp0129.htm Select Committee on Standards and Privileges First Report iv. STRATEGY NETWORK INTERNATIONAL], ''Hansard''.</ref>