The phrase
"affair industry" refers to a collection of businesses and services that profit from facilitating and promoting extramarital relationships or affairs.
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The combination of important economic interests and a small administration creates a perfect atmosphere for the
public affairs industry.
The question of what makes a mover and shaker in the modern public
affairs industry in a live one.
«There's been a total revolution in the public
affairs industry with regards to Jeremy Corbyn,» says Kevin Craig, founder of lobbying firm PLMR.
Other recent entrants to the public
affairs industry include former Tory special advisers Lizzie Loudon at Hanbury Strategy, Kate Shouesmith at Weber Shandwick and Meg Chandler Powell at Burson Marsteller.
As the public
affairs industry continues to fight to improve its reputation, the battle was not helped helped by two of its number who were standing as Tory candidates in the 2017 general election.
But the majority of lobbyists in the UK's # 2 billion public
affairs industry work in - house for large organisations or for agencies, raising value - for - money questions about the estimated # 50,000 initial annual cost of the register.
Public
affairs industry bodies were understandably peeved when the government moved to increase the annual fee for registering on its much - maligned statutory lobbying register.
Liam Fox's resignation and other lobbying scandals have still not resulted in a statutory register, but the public
affairs industry still faces more regulation under the coalition's plans.
«There's been a total revolution in the public
affairs industry with regards to Jeremy Corbyn,» one lobbying agency boss recently told Public Affairs News.
Other recent entrants to the public
affairs industry include May's former press secretary Lizzie Loudon at Hanbury Strategy, Greg Clarks» ex-special adviser Meg Chandler Powell at Burson Marsteller and Boris Johnson's former chief adviser Will Walden at Edelman.
Public
affairs industry bosses have spoken out about the difficulties the UK lobbying industry will face if Jeremy Corbyn wins the Labour leadership as expected.
In recent years, the UK
public affairs industry has resembled the Premier League before Leicester City took the title.
Some question marks remain over the attitude of the leader, but the MP for Islington North is no longer seen universally as a politician that the public
affairs industry could never do business with.
Newspaper reports have highlighted the number of Conservative PPCs who currently work in the public
affairs industry.
First, the growth of the professional public
affairs industry and an increased effort by many organisations to infl uence politics and policy.
He has avoided aligning himself with any political party, but one of Condon's biggest fans in the public
affairs industry is well - known Tory lobbyist Peter Bingle.
So the public
affairs industry can at least console itself with what appears to look like progress on the gender divide.
«I imagine sometime in the next five to ten years he'll be heading up a charity or NGO,» says one admirer in the public
affairs industry.
A little over a year ago, I called for the public
affairs industry to start taking digital seriously.
The register was set up in 2015 and stirred controversy become members of the public
affairs industry were blocked from taking the job.
The public
affairs industry is alive, well and thriving in the UK.
For some of us in the public
affairs industry, though, the challenges are what make it such a stimulating place to work.
If you were to take the excellent Jim Pickard's report at face value, you would conclude that innumerable shifty recruitment consultants are queuing up around the back of Labour Party HQ, signing up unsuspecting politicos for the public
affairs industry.
It paints a rather bleak picture of the public
affairs industry, conjuring up images of companies desperate to fill the people pages on their corporate websites with the latest political hotshots, to be replaced next week when the pollsters report another blip in electoral behaviour.
An article published in yesterday's Financial Times may have given some in the business community the impression that a great change is sweeping over the UK public
affairs industry.
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Simon has spent the last two decades working in the public
affairs industry, having studied history at the University of York and worked as a researcher to a Conservative MP.
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