23 Mar 2006
| by by our Parliamentary correspondent
LONDON - Spending by political parties on ads at general elections looks certain to be cut after...in an attempt to head off a backlash from taxpayers over the plan to increase state funding to parties to reduce their dependency on donors.
Parties are each allowed to spend up to £20m on the election in the 12 months preceding it. David Cameron, the Conservative Party's leader, has proposed a £15m limit for future ...
12 Apr 2005
| by by Bill Britt
LONDON - Labour and the Conservatives are on track to spend record amounts on direct marketing to target the few floating voters who will determine the election, according to exclusive research commissioned by Marketing.
16 Nov 2000
elections have been driven by marketing.
But - and it is a big but - political parties ...
07 Dec 2007
| by Our Parliamentary correspondent
Labour and the Tories have clashed over whether poster campaigns by political parties should...,000 donations from the property developer
David Abrahams. The parties are to reopen talks on a new agreement for political
funding, which will mean a big cut in election budgets. Labour has floated the idea ...
a total ban on posters without Tory
support. However, all parties are likely to cut their spending ...
23 Mar 2007
| by Our Parliamentary correspondent
Political parties will end their traditional billboard blitzes in the run up to general elections...parties to cut spending by £20 million over the
lifetime of a four- or five-year Parliament. "I would much prefer
parties to decide of their own accord - and in the context of new
spending limits - that activities such as billboard advertising were
wasteful rather than to see the state ban parties' posters," he ...
08 Oct 1999
| by JADE GARRETT
Politics and advertising have always been controversial cohorts and
the tensions between the two....
Despite ample opportunity for discussion, the main political parties
still can t agree on an appropriate format and agenda for regulating
party political advertising. As a result, the Committee of Advertising ...
, party political
advertising for the next general election will be a free for all.
It seems ...
09 Dec 2005
| by Our Parliamentary correspondent
Total spending on advertising by the three main political parties rose from £9.7 million...Official returns to the Electoral Commission show that The Conservative
Party, which spent heavily ...
,000 in 2001 to £1.6
million, a record for the party. Labour's £5.3 million spend was
up slightly from £5 ...
.1 million and Labour £7.3 million. Since then,
campaign expenditure has been limited by law. Some party ...
24 Mar 2006
| by Our Parliamentary correspondent
Spending by political parties on ads at general elections looks certain to be cut after the "cash...in an attempt to head off a backlash from taxpayers
over the plan to increase state funding to parties to reduce their
dependency on donors. Parties are each allowed to spend up to £20 million on the
election in the 12 months preceding it. David Cameron, the Conservative
Party's leader, has proposed a £15 million limit for future ...
16 Jan 2003
's recommendation that the UK's ban on paid-for broadcast advertising by political parties should remain in place....the recommendations are an overhaul of the system of allocating party political broadcasts (PPBs), and that all ...
14 Apr 2010
| by Nicola Clark
LONDON - Tactics used by political parties to woo female voters are clumsy and outdated....the campaign as 'presidential'. The parties' use of social media has led political commentators to dub ...
-media electioneering rings false. 'The political parties are creating these siloed communities,' she says. 'It ...
to the confrontational, argumentative style of politics' some believe alienates women voters. The parties also seem ...