07 Dec 2005
| by Bill Britt
The three main political parties dramatically increased their spending on direct marketing...by the Conservative Party, 269% up on the sum spent
in 2001. It spent £8.2m on advertising. Labour boosted its ...
14 Apr 2005
| by by our Parliamentary correspondent
LONDON - The three main political parties clashed over government adspend this week, when...Tory pledges to cut Whitehall's £189m ad budget to £60m by the 2007-08 financial year, the level it was at when Labour came to power in 1997, were dismissed by the two parties as "unrealistic" and "flaky".
Labour accused the Tories of double standards, pointing to their plans for "a major advertising ...
13 Jan 2010
| by David Singleton
' as the main political parties step up their campaigning....level** *According to media reports **According to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums ...
PRWeek asked a number of senior figures in the public affairs industry whether the parties ...
.' The Conservative Party kicked off its general election drive last week with the launch of a 400,000 poster ...
27 Feb 2002
| by Daniel Rogers,
LONDON - Peter Mandelson has attacked the advertising industry's proposal that political parties...the traditional format of party political broadcasts.
The proposal followed the Electoral Commission ...
.
Liberal Democrat director of communications David Walter said: "The danger of abolishing party political ...
in turn-out at last year's general election.
"I think we've reached the limit of soundbite politics ...
26 Jan 2010
| by Matt Cartmell
The Labour Party continues to 'dominate' Twitter over the other political parties, a new report has...on Twitter and UK politics produced by Twitter politics channel Tweetminster analysed 800,000 posts to reveal how MPs, PPCs, parties and the political media are faring on the site. Collectively Labour MPs and PPCs are more active, more frequently mentioned and have more followers than the other main parties ...
27 Apr 2000
| by IAN DARBY
The government has enraged sections of the direct marketing
community by allowing political...The government has enraged sections of the direct marketing
community by allowing political parties to use the electoral roll for
fundraising.
The move comes despite the recent ...
than a year to reverse a Home Office Working Party recommendation to
limit commercial use ...
23 Jan 1997
| by Our Parliamentary Correspondent
Political parties will be able to run three-minute TV broadcasts
under proposals issued...Political parties will be able to run three-minute TV broadcasts
under proposals issued ...
).
Broadcasters have bowed to pressure from ad agencies and the Labour
Party for slots shorter than the traditional five minutes. In the
future, parties will be able to run three- or four-minute films ...
08 Mar 2005
| by MediaWeek
among the political parties....to political parties after the election with a summary of complaints registered, the electoral landscape ...
and declining memberships of UK political parties herald the eventual adoption of the US model where television ...
the detail shrouded. We now know of the Government's six vows as outlined on the party's website (your ...
21 Jan 2005
End Child Poverty has begun a campaign to persuade all political parties to sign up to ten policies
01 Feb 2001
| by MARK KLEINMAN
political parties in the run-up to the general election over their failure to reach a compromise...political parties in the run-up to the general election over their failure to reach a compromise on the regulation of political advertising.
Brown said it was a highly unsatisfactory situation for political advertising to be exempt from regulation, just as it had been before the last election, when the parties were ...
