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By Stephen Foster on September 25, 2012
I believe it was Virgin Records who used to make a fortune out of those useless compilation records ‘the best pile of old tat in the UK – ever’ or some such. And Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg (also deputy prime minister of the coalition government) has a lot in common on first sight with [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Politics, PR | Tagged david laws, Jeremy Thorpe, liberal democrats, Nick Clegg, pensioners, richard branson, Vince Cable, virgin
By Stephen Foster on September 20, 2012
Before the last UK general election the Liberal Democrats signed a ‘pledge’ not to increase student tuition fees. And then promptly agreed to them being tripled followed a Labour-instigated review by the ludicrous Lord Browne, former head of BP who was nixed after lying about his homosexual lover. Now Clegg has chosen a rare party [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged coalition government, David Cameron, liberal democrats, Nick Clegg, pr disaster, the poke, tuition fees, Vince Cable
By Stephen Foster on May 18, 2012
For a couple of years at least the UK media markets have been defying gravity, showing reasonable growth (in the circumstances) despite a wider economy that’s stagnant at best. Over the weekend UK PM David Cameron (pictured) will be hobnobbing with the G8 group of industrial nations at Barack Obama’s Camp David weekend place. He [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Barack Obama, bully pulpits, camp david, coalition government, daily mail, David Cameron, deficit reduction, france, Francois Hollande, ft, g8, George Osborne, Greece, leveson inquiry, liberal democrats, Martin Wolf, news corporation, Nick Clegg, Sir Martin Sorrell, slash and burn, Sly Bailey, spain, stagnation, Sun, trinity mirror, uk economy, Vince Cable, WPP
By Stephen Foster on December 6, 2011
There’s no-one more free market than Tim Bell, Lord Bell as he now is, whose attitude to taking on PR clients at his main PR business Bell Pottinger, is that of the London barrister who compares himself to a taxi driver. You have to pick up the next one in the queue and if they [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Bell Pottinger, carlton tv, chime communications, David Cameron, Independent, liberal democrats, lobbying, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Green, Nick Clegg, Saatchi brothers, Tim Bell, tory connections, uzbekistan
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
By Stephen Foster on February 9, 2011
The UK coalition government, comprised of Tories led by David Cameron and chancellor George Osborne with a tail of increasingly reluctant Liberal Democrats, has been completely sandbagged today by Lib Dem peer Lord Oakeshott (hardly a household name) resigning over what he sees as a government sell-out in agreeing a bonus and lending deal with [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andy Coulson, bankers bonuses, Craig Oliver, Danny Alexander, David Cameron, George Osborne, liberal democrats, Lord Oakeshott, Tories, uk coalition government
By Stephen Foster on December 15, 2010
In leader Nick Clegg and business guru Vince Cable the Liberal Democrats, the junior partner to the Conservatives in the UK’s current coalition government, had two of the most popular and respected communicators at the time of the May general election. But both are well and truly in the doghouse now following their decision to [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, PR, Research | Tagged conservatives, Ken Clarke, Labour, liberal democrats, Nick Clegg, reuters/ipsos mori poll, tuition fees, Vince Cable
By Stephen Foster on October 20, 2010
Coalition government deputy prime minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has won PR Week’s gong as communicator of the year, which will be some consolation to him as angry Lib Dems eviscerate him and his sidekick treasury minister Danny Alexander for their role in preparing chancellor George Osborne’s £83bn public spending cuts, due to [...]
Posted in News, Politics, PR | Tagged coalition government, Danny Alexander, Danny Rogers, liberal democrats, Nick Clegg, PR Week
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