UK Summer Internship Programme 2025

About Hanbury Strategy

We turn insight into impact. Whether you face a communications challenge or have a policy goal, our exceptional team uses our understanding of public opinion, the press and politics to create campaigns that work. We have a relentless focus on achieving great results for our clients.

What’s on offer

• A 3 month long internship in our Public Affairs and Communications team running from July 2025 - October 2025.
• You will have the opportunity to work directly on client projects.
• Learn from the most senior and experienced people in the business.
• Be given a line manager and mentor, responsible for your development during your time with us.
• Be paid London living wage plus accrue annual leave days.
• Get fully involved in our culture and live and learn our Hanbury values.
  

The role

• You will work across our communications and public affairs teams.
• You will regularly support our Media Monitoring Unit.
• Monitoring the media for key developments relating to clients.
• Researching, analysing and collating political outputs from Westminster, Whitehall and the regulators.
• Contributing to the drafting of briefings, stakeholder maps and client updates.
• You will be supporting the team in servicing clients.
• Taking part in brainstorms to come up with new story ideas for clients.
• Regular hours are 9am - 6pm but there will be earlier starts for monitoring.

The ideal Intern will

• Have a passion for politics and/or the media.
• Have a desire to learn new things.
• Have the ability to work well within teams.
• Be excited by the opportunity to work on new projects.
• Have a strong work ethic.

Who’s eligible

• Anybody over the age of 18.
• You don’t need a degree or any work experience.

How to apply

To apply, in 400 words, respond to the situation below. Please do not send a C.V as our internship recruitment is blind. Applications will close on Thursday 29th May 2025.

Fewer than half of 18 to 24-year-olds exercised their right to vote in the last election, compared to three quarters of people aged 65 and above.

This is despite repeated unsuccessful efforts to reach younger voters from politicians across all political parties. Reform has the largest reach on TikTok of any political party, backbench Labour MPs have been encouraged to join YouTube and TikTok, and former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak posed in Adidas Sambas in an effort to connect. Despite these attempts, according to a 2025 electoral commission report, only 45% of people aged 11 to 25 say they are interested in UK politics.

What are the key barriers to political leaders achieving cut through with younger voters?

If you were hired to advise a political leader on engaging with, and increasing support from, young voters:

• What policies would you recommend they introduce, or remove, to increase their support among younger voters?
• What channels would you recommend they use to speak to younger voters? How could they use the media to boost their popularity among young people?