Treasury Livermore worked for
Gordon Brown, then
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, during the
1997 general election campaign. Following Labour's election victory and Brown's appointment as
Chancellor, he was employed as a
special adviser in the
Treasury. He was seconded to Labour's election team ahead of the
2001 general election, as director of attack and rebuttal, and returned to the Treasury following the election. He was also seconded to several
US Congressional campaigns whilst working for Brown. Livermore was campaign strategist to the Chancellor for the
2005 general election, and described by
Philip Gould as one of seven people who devised Labour's election strategy in 2001 and 2005. Following the 2005 election, he was appointed chief strategy adviser to Brown. Prior to the 2007 Budget, Livermore reportedly advised against Brown's decision to abolish the 10p
income tax rate.
Downing Street Following Brown's appointment as
Prime Minister in 2007, Livermore was appointed as director of strategy in
Downing Street. Responsible for strategic planning and attending
Cabinet meetings, he devised the strategy for the Prime Minister's transition and first 100 days in office. Livermore unsuccessfully advocated for a General Election in Autumn 2007, writing the initial strategy memo to the Prime Minister on the matter. He left Downing Street in 2008, the first of Brown's senior advisers to do so, to become a senior strategist at
Saatchi & Saatchi. Livermore reportedly declined an offer from
Peter Mandelson to become
Downing Street Chief of Staff, and a request from Gordon Brown to work on Labour's
2010 general election campaign. He has since been an occasional commentator on political strategy in the media.
Private Sector and Opposition Livermore became director of strategy at
Teneo Blue Rubicon after leaving Saatchi & Saatchi, where he established Thirty Six Strategy in 2012. He subsequently worked at
McKinsey & Company in their European Banking Practice. He returned to politics in 2014, as director of Labour's
2015 general election campaign. Livermore was appointed to the
House of Lords on 21 October 2015, as
Baron Livermore of
Rotherhithe in the
London Borough of Southwark. He was a member of the Economic Affairs Select Committee from 2016 to 2019. Following
Keir Starmer's
election as Labour Leader in April 2020, Livermore served as an opposition
whip until July 2020. He returned to the shadow front bench as Shadow Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury in April 2023. He was a member of the General Election Strategy Group for Labour's
2024 general election campaign.
Government Following the
2024 general election, Livermore was appointed
Financial Secretary to the Treasury on 8 July 2024. ==Personal life==