A new advisory business to help financial services firms manage political risks in the UK and Europe, and navigate "the post-pandemic economic recovery" has been spun out of consultancy firm Hanbury Strategy.

Forefront Advisers, which formally launched on 10 March, has the backing of Ameet Gill, the influential pro-Remain former director of strategy for Number 10 who acted as special adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron, and Paul Stephenson, the pro-Brexit former communications director for campaign group Vote Leave, who together formed Hanbury Strategy in 2016.