Sentences with phrase «lobby journalists»

Today marks the final professional responsibility for lobby journalists, who tend to enjoy the same holidays as politicians themselves.

Over the weekend I took several calls from lobby journalists all of which were along the same lines.

Meanwhile, No 10 have just told lobby journalists that this afternoon's lobby has been cancelled.

This has not won him universal popularity among lobby journalists.

Experienced lobby journalists say it is no surprise that their «solid» and «highly professional» former colleague is now a big noise in public affairs.

The PM knows that winning support is often less about what she says and more about how she says it - and too many lobby journalists are guilty of playing along.

The speculation started when the Scottish Conservative leader impressed lobby journalists and MPs alike with her party conference speech last year.

If the Conservative party is a happy and harmonious ship throughout, then Damian Green did a good job of hiding it when he sat down for lunch with lobby journalists in parliament's Churchill Room.

A couple of weeks ago, the conversation among a small group of lobby journalists perched at a Westminster bar (what is the proper term for such a group: a conspiracy?

Jeremy Corbyn has been praised by lobby journalists for a «witty» and «funny» speech at his first Christmas drinks reception with the media.

Kenningham is known by former lobby journalists as a gregarious and tenacious spinner.

Alongside various former spinners, there are three former lobby journalists in the top 35.

And in her response to the defence secretary, which was shared with lobby journalists at 7.41 pm on Wednesday evening, May devoted 227 words to essentially telling Fallon just what a great chap he was...

A few lobby journalists who remember the ranting, expletive - strewn style of former Labour spin doctors such as Tom Baldwin have begun to warm to his calm, reserved manner.

The government's handling of the immigration nightmares being experienced by some Windrush - generation British residents raised fresh concerns among lobby journalists about what the hell is going on in Team May these days.

Or at least that was the impression given by Rebecca Long Bailey when she hosted a question and answer session with lobby journalists after the Labour leader's Brexit speech.

The government's amendment to Labour's motion has been viewed by senior lobby journalists as a crafty manoeuvre.

Briefing lobby journalists, the prime minister's official spokeswoman pointed out that May has already had a phone conversation with Trump, in which he invited her to visit Washington at the earliest opportunity

Higginson PR was set up by former Westminster lobby journalists John and Clodagh Higginson last year.

Addressing lobby journalists over lunch in parliament's Churchill Room, George Osborne started as he meant to go on - with a pop at the weakness of the woman who he allegedly would like to see chopped up in bags in his freezer.

Addressing lobby journalists over lunch in parliament's Churchill Room, George Osborne started as...

Guests at last night's Number 10 Christmas drinks for lobby journalists heard that Theresa May has...

His biggest weakness, as most lobby journalists see it, is that he is even less flexible in his views than Corbyn.

For once, the Labour leader chose to focus all six of his question on the same subject — and lobby journalists agreed that the approach had resulted in his best PMQs performance «for ages».

What actually happened was a cynical, but well executed spin exercise to kill the story and deflect attention on to the last Labour government — with Downing St spinners taking lobby journalists for patsies.

A member of Cameron's former Downing Street media team has also been contacting lobby journalists to insist that it is «entirely false to suggest David Cameron's media team covered up or tried to cover up the Trident missile test».

As Adel Darwish lobby journalist has tweeted to us, it's going to be an interesting lobby briefing with the prime minister's spokesman this afternoon.

I've spotted a couple of lobby journalists sitting in the otherwise deserted room.

12:27 - I've skipped plenty of questions while trying to get a sense of what other lobby journalists made of that exchange and the consensus is that that was probably Miliband's best PMQs performance yet.

At the start of that week, I was invited to join lobby journalists at Labour's first event of the year.

Nor are lobby journalists supposed to spend their time feting the elected representatives they report on.

With lobby journalists gathered outside of the room afterwards, one of the biggest crowds had soon formed around Chris Bryant, a supporter of Smith.

Even the most seasoned lobby journalists were shocked as the surprise appointment was announced on Monday evening.

More recently, Davidson provided lobby journalists with another reason why she might prefer to stay up north.

There is not going to be a general election,» the prime minister's spokesman told lobby journalists last month.

He set up his agency in 2017 with wife and fellow former lobby journalist Clodagh.

When ex-Westminster lobby journalists John and Clodagh Higginson set up their new agency, they avoided SW1 and instead based their PR and lobbying shop in the heart of newly - trendy Peckham.

But, in pattern that lobby journalists say is becoming increasingly familiar, Johnson has denied he was up to anything mischievous and insisted that he is shocked by the fall - out from the media storm that he single - handedly whipped up.

He then name checked a trio of lucky lobby journalists:

Shortly after the email's existence was revealed by the Guido Fawkes website, lobby journalists received an official statement from the Labour press office:

It leaves lobby journalists desperate for copy and looking enviously at Mebyon Kernow, the campaign for Cornish independence.

Read the news, sign up to the daily emails from leading lobby journalists (Paul Waugh's «Waughzone» for the Huffington Post is my favourite), have a dedicated Twitter list of lobby reporters, listen to Today, Today in Parliament and the Westminster Hour and skim through all your party's frontbench briefings and policy papers.

They get great stories from the compliant Murdoch press but serious lobby journalists are picking up on the shallowness of their plans.

The reaction in Westminster has been far from mixed, with Tory MPs, special advisers and lobby journalists generally agreeing that Williamson must be on — somewhat clumsy - manoeuvres.

Intriguingly, Abbott added a section to her speech that was not in the version sent to lobby journalists moments before she took to the stage.

The Guardian's Rafael Behr said the speech was even good enough to earn Miliband «a bit of kudos» from hard - bitten lobby journalists.

Limbering up for a short speech, he told the assembled lobby journalists:

Experienced lobby journalist Patrick Hennessy was signed up by Ed Miliband as Labour's deputy director of communications in 2013.