07 Mar 2012
| by Jamie Holyer, Advocate
that senior Conservatives are already developing political and electoral strategies to rehabilitate the party ...
- and extensive political capital - to restoring public confidence in his party's ability to manage the NHS ...
over the next three years on Conservative - rather than Liberal Democrat - shoulders, party insiders ...
29 Mar 2012
| by George Eustice
The reform of party funding comes on to the agenda periodically, but always proves hard to deliver....Political parties are an under-appreciated component of a functional democracy. They galvanise ...
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In the current environment, there is no public enthusiasm for state funding of political parties along Australian lines. But a cap on donations without alternative support risks weakening political parties ...
05 Apr 2012
| by Ian Monk
Was there ever a more risible political spectacle than Westminster's finest demonstrating ...
during the mad cow disease scare in the 1990s.
This was far worse, with politicians of all parties ...
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The net result is voters turning away from conventional politics in droves. PR may well be killing ...
05 Apr 2012
| by Peter Holt
're handling suddenly attracts a blunt political connotation. For those of us working in the public sector, it...that the offending party should be summarily impeached.)
There s learning to be drawn from these multiple ...
to operating close to that line in the sand between policy and politics.
In this case, I had spotted that a good policy was profoundly bad politics. It s not even that I didn t want them to take the decision ...
16 Apr 2012
| by Sara Luker
Labour Party leader Ed Miliband has been accused of 'hypocrisy' in his plea to reduce the influence...to political parties, stating: At a time when politics is seen as being disconnected from most people's lives ...
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Mark Adams, boss of The Professional Lobbying Company, said he believed all political parties were ...
in around three million union members automatically giving 3 a year to a the Labour Party.
Lexis ...
24 Feb 2012
| by John Owens
at restoring the Conservatives' image as the 'party of business', observers have said....said the pressure was on the Prime Minister from the rank and file of the party to reassert traditional Conservative links. Conservative backbenchers will have been saying this is the party of business, we don ...
to demonstrate that the Tory part is not the nasty party the Prime Minister will have realised that a polarised ...
15 May 2012
| by Matt Cartmell
The Conservative Party's deputy political director is leaving Downing Street....The Conservative Party has confirmed that Henry Macrory is to leave the CCHQ press team at the end of next week, as revealed by the Guido Fawkes website. The party declined to comment on Macrory s next steps. Formerly Daily Star political editor, Macrory has worked for the party for many years. He ...
19 Mar 2012
| by Matt Cartmell
Councils have been warned to be cautious about politically sensitive blog posts as London and other...Purdah otherwise known as the pre-election period means council comms units need to guard against promoting one politician or party over and above any other.
The period will apply to all London-focused public sector bodies and those elsewhere in the country that have elections but it does not apply ...
17 Jan 2012
| by Sara Luker
Tony Blair's political director and close aide has resigned, PRWeek can reveal....David Blunkett, and before that he worked at the Labour Party as head of press and broadcasting ...
fantastic experience and a real honour. After more than a decade with one of the world's leading political ...
29 Mar 2012
as opportunistic. Issues are fine if addressed thoughtfully, but leave party politics to the corridors of power ...
in the US). So this move has integrity.
When a political issue collides with a brand, there is, arguably ...
, such as Fairtrade.
These may not be controversial, but they are taking a stand - and that is politics.
MAYBE ...