Cornick is a former civil service researcher who has worked for a number of different Whitehall departments and other public sector bodies including HM Treasury, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Cabinet Office, DECC, BIS and Defra.

Andrew Wiseman, managing director of ICM Group, has also brought in Eulalia Pereira, a research manager at Volante Research, who will take on a new role in ICM’s qualitative team, and Electoral Reform Research’s Tim Robinson, who will become research executive of ICM’s financial services research team.