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...gure. The Conservative MP for Buckingham’s political odyssey from the far right of...ke no mistake: Parliament is broken.” Lobbying letter sent to MPs during spea...completely impartial between members of one political party and another.” Speake...
...me up with appropriate solutions to local problems – and along with political thinking, says Morgan, the at...l the setting-up of the Assembly, the Welsh Office was much more of a lobbying department throughout Whiteha...
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Department's lobbying each other? It's a tiny fraction of the real problem
...e Association of Professional Political Consultants (APPC) – th...on at least 71 contracts with lobbying firms over five years. Hurd ha...some £37m in 2007-08 on lobbying other arms of government. Taxp...ring the lack of trust in the political process is the suspicion tha...
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Report finds 89% of spads built careers in Westminster bubble
...d to Westminster: 11 per cent have worked in lobbying, and 19 per cent have worked f...res are similar: nine per cent had worked in lobbying, and 20 per cent in think tan...a newspaper into a communications role for a political party. Among coalition spads...
...argument is that members of the BNP, a legal political party, have as much right to...cers’ union, Napo, has spent the last year lobbying for a ban on BNP membership am...weaker of spirit” and keen “to avoid the political limelight” at a time when...
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Debate: Elected police and crime commissioners
.... The fact that it chickened out when faced with the self-interested lobbying of chief constables doesn’t...ith the illusion of authority leading to the disillusionment with the political process. Commissioners sound...
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45 years in a rough, tough business
...he election. And you do get a political dividend from trying to persu...s never been the case in my political life.” In other words, nobo...ecent Dispatches programme on lobbying – and particularly about the...he does argue that the use of political special advisers “has grow...
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‘I would have been a perfectly credible cabinet secretary’
...own in the public mind. “In highly charged political matters,” he told the court...d his role in a dishonest attempt to drum up lobbying business. “What I took away...tram: a career in quotes“In highly charged political matters, one person’s ambi...
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An exclusive club: special adviser analysis
...e role has long formed a crucial rung on the political ladder. But in fact spads are...ose deals, and it’s therefore good to have political sherpas who can work through...d 20 per cent have held jobs in marketing or lobbying. Only nine per cent have work...
The coalition special advisers
...enzie form the main points of political liaison with the civil servan...cial adviser to Nick Clegg on political relations – Alison Suttie h...g that her approach is “not politically motivated; it’s evidence-...Conservatives in 2007 to join lobbying firm Bell Pottinger Public Aff...
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From Whitehall to town hall: Birmingham town hallThe Conservatives’ new green paper on localism has been touted as a radical, devolutionary document. In fact, says James Morris, it is more nuanced; regions remain to balance the empowerment of councilsThe Conservatives recently published their ...
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An example of the form officials may have to fill outA select committee report recommends that civil servants provide details of every contact with “outside interests”, and aims to restrict their employment after leaving government. Andrew Alexander reportsWhen Westminster returned from its C...
Tags: political lobbying, civil service act, civil service pay and conditions, Leadership and Management, standards in public life