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By Stephen Foster on January 30, 2012
Well maybe not Labour leader Ed Miliband although it’s surprising that no-one has reminded him yet that RBS boss Stephen Hester’s generous deal at the nearly-nationalised bank was struck by former Labour PM Gordon Brown and chancellor Alistair Darling. And that it was Labour that decided that some public sector ‘workers’, like GPs and hospital [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Alistair Darling, bankers, bonus, coalition government, David Cameron, Ed Miliband, George Osborne, Gordon Brown, hunting pinks, Labour, pr disaster, RBS, Stephen Hester, Vince Cable
By Stephen Foster on October 12, 2011
The Liam Fox affair drags on, the UK coalition government defence secretary remains the subject of an internal investigation about his relations with close friend and best man at his wedding Adam Werritty. Werritty has masqueraded as an official adviser to Fox, attending loads of meetings with the defence secretary, some abroad, although he was [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Adam Werritty, affairs, Boris Johnson, coalition government, Craig Oliver, David Cameron, david laws, defence secretary, Dorothy Macmillan, Edwina Currie, Harold Macmillan, John Major, John Profumo, Liam Fox, Lord Boothby, Lord Lambton, Norman Lamont, Norman Levy, Olga Polizzi, pr man, sex scandals, Tory Party, uk pm, Viscount Jellicoe, William Hague
By Stephen Foster on September 12, 2011
This weekend’s Mail on Sunday trumpeted its status as the UK’s top selling Sunday newspaper with just over 2m sales but that must be a crushing disappointment to Associated Newspaper executives who saw MoS sales briefly hit 2.4m in the immediate aftermath of the closure of News international’s News of the World. The NoW was [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged associated newspapers, coalition government, daily mirror, Ed Miliband, Gordon Brown, labour government, Labour Party, News International, news of the world, people, Petronella Wyatt, readers, richard desmond, star on sunday, Sun, sunday espress, sunday mirror, Willian Rees-Mogg
By Stephen Foster on August 10, 2011
London mayor Boris Johnson is famous for busking it and came monumentally unstuck on a walkabout in riot-hit Clapham yesterday when local residents (Clapham is a mostly well-heeled suburb of London) gave him some stick for clearly not knowing what he was talking about. He’s accompanied by a clearly pissed off home secretary Teresa May [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Bojo, Boris Johnson, clapham walkabout, coalition government, David Cameron, home secretary, london mayor, london riots, Teresa May
By Stephen Foster on June 22, 2011
WPP media buyer Group M has slashed its growth forecast for total UK adspend in 2011 from 3.6 per cent to just 1.5 per cent. It says UK TV growth will be just one per cent (from a previous forecast of four per cent) while newspapers are set to take a terrible beating with national [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged 1979 general election, 2011 adspend forecast, Adam Smith, closures, coalition government, group m, magazines, Margaret Thatcher, press, retail, savage squeeze, Sir Geoffrey Howe, tv, uk ad expenditure, WPP
By James Charlton on June 2, 2011
Senior advertising executives were probably quite happy to see David and Samantha Cameron scamper up the steps of 10 Downing Street last May. They had endured 13 years of hard Labour. A total ban on cigarette advertising in 2002 was followed in 2007 by severe TV restrictions on the advertising of food high in fat, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Adam Boulton, Alastair Campbell, coalition government, conservative central office, David Buckingham, David Cameron, Ed Balls, government strategist 10 downing streeet, Lord Saatchi, m&c saatchi, mothers union, Reg Bailey, saatchi & saatchi, Samantha Cameron, Steve Hilton
By James Charlton on May 30, 2011
Iconic adman and three-time election-winning Thatcher adviser turned public relations oligarch Lord Bell, speaking at an IPA event in March 2010, summed up election strategy thus: if a country’s ‘feel-good factor’ stays above a certain level, governing parties win elections. If it drops below that level, they are defeated. Sadly, there is no official measurement [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged advertising, Barack Obama, Chris Huhne, coalition government, David Cameron, feel-good factor, Kay Burley, Ken Clarke, Lord Bell, Media, politics, PR, queen, royal wedding, Ryan Giggs, sky
By Angie Dean on May 20, 2011
Not that this was Sir Fred’s intention of course when he took out a super-injunction (gagging order) preventing the press reporting details of an affair with a senior colleague, and even mention of the fact that he was (or had been) a banker. But Sir Fred, who presided over the near collapse of Royal Bank [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged abn amro, bailout, coalition government, footballers, free speech, judges, liberal democrat, Lord Oakeshott, RBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, Sir Fred Goodwin
By Stephen Foster on May 6, 2011
Former Labour prime minister Harold Wilson famously observed that a week was a long time in politics, current Liberal Democrat leader and coalition government deputy prime minister Nick Clegg might concur. He would certainly agree that things have changed a lot, and not how he hoped, since his party negotiated the coalition agreement with David [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Barack Obama, Chris Huhne, coalition government, conservatives, David Cameron, Labour Party, liberal democrats, navy seals, Nick Clegg, Osama bin Laden, student tuition fees, Vince Cable, white house
By Stephen Foster on April 18, 2011
The Liberal Democrats are trying to raise over £1m to top up their depleted coffers and central to this much-needed fundraising is a new ‘Leader’s Forum’ which is trying to sign up 50 businesses at £25,000 each. The special on the menu is access to Lib Dem leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg at [...]
Posted in News, Politics, PR | Tagged bell pottinger public affairs, coalition government, leader's forum, liberal democrats, Nick Clegg, Peter Bingle, PR Week, westminster lobbyists
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