David Bruno John Canzini OBE (born March 1964) is a political advisor who worked for the former British prime minister, Liz Truss.
He formerly worked in the office of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, assisting the Downing Street chief of staff, Steve Barclay, as his deputy.
Canzini worked for the Conservative Party as an election agent and campaign director, before joining Lynton Crosby's consultancy CTF Partners.
[1] He started training as a manager for Debenhams but was soon recruited as an election agent by the member of Parliament for South Derbyshire, Edwina Currie, who he impressed as keen and smart, "a tidy man... very focused, absolutely on the job, very shrewd, very easy to deal with..."[1] He next worked for Jackson Carlaw, becoming the director of campaigns for the Scottish Conservative Party, where he was successful as the party gained two seats in the 1992 election, exceeding expectations.
[2] Crosby, his previous employer, has a political strategy to "get the barnacles off the boat" by focusing on conservative wedge issues and discarding other non-core policies.