Obama’s election mastermind to help UK Labour party

David Axelrod, the mastermind behind Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 US presidential election victories, is to advise Britain’s Labour party in the run-up to the next general election.

He will work with shadow foreign secretary and election strategist Douglas Alexander until the vote, expected in May 2015.

The party is looking to regain power from the Conservative-led coalition after election defeat in 2010.