Portland's team have helped political and corporate clients through dozens of high profile crises – and have prevented many more becoming public.

In our experience, most people look back on a crisis and wish they had done more at the beginning to take control. Failing to engage rarely limits the fall-out.

This requires the ability to make decisions rapidly to shape the debate. We are able to create and manage operations at short notice which combine, for example, opinion polling, research, legal advice and third-party outreach, as well as 24/7 media handling.