Sentences with phrase «lobby journalists who»

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.

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In my years of wandering its corridors and lobbies, of hanging about for late - night votes and dozing in committee rooms, I came to loathe British politics and to mistrust the special regiment of journalists (far too close to their sources) who write about it.

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

I'm a journalist who sometimes goes to the lobby.

Mr Watson, who resigned as minister for digital engagement at the reshuffle, backs a call by the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, for a ban on anonymous briefings to lobby journalists, and calls for internet bloggers to be given the same access to Westminster as the lobby.

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.

Lord Rose used a speech to lobby journalists to make a direct appeal to those who have previously wanted out, saying that he wanted to «bring those eurosceptics in».

But the news that Johnson was considering pulling England out of the World Cup came as a shock to his special advisers who had to issue urgent clarifications to lobby journalists.

This represents a change in stance for the leader's office, who on Friday were briefing selected lobby journalists that Phil Woolas political career «is over», as a result of the election court ruling.

When asked by a journalist to share his views on «the gay lobby,» Francis replies that if a gay man is to live his life righteously, «who am I to judge him?