Sentences with phrase «of lobby journalists»

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?

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

Not exact matches

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.

This is the 39th annual LAC, a conference of «learning and lobbying» and this year's keynote speaker is journalist / political analyst Amy Holmes.

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.

A few hours before parliament finally went into recess, a group of online journalists were chatting in the lobby.

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

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.

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».

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.

Indeed some have only entered the industry in the last couple of years, usually after burnishing their credentials as a lobby journalist or a special adviser.

He then name checked a trio of lucky lobby journalists:

Working with lobby journalists «The lobby is an essential part of the system.

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.

In his new job, Milne has little direct contact with lobby journalists; except on big issues, they are briefed by Kevin Slocombe, a former trade union head of communications.

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 Conservatives also pounced on the shadow home secretary's Tuesday morning interview round, calling it Abbott's «morning of chaos» in an email sent to lobby journalists.

With over 150,000 visitors a month, Politics.co.uk's team of journalists produce their stories from deep within the corridors of power in Westminster, where they were the first digital journalists to gain access to the lobby.

As Cameron spoke out, lobby journalists were reminded of Michael Fallon's attack on Ed Miliband for «stabbing his own brother in the back» during the general election.

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.

Jeremy Corbyn may have just been critical of the media in his big speech, but Labour MPs and lobby journalists were out in force to rub shoulders at the Mirror party on the last night of Labour conference.

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.

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

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.

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

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».

Perhaps McDonnell was just referring to the lobby, the group of journalists based in the Houses of Parliament with privileged access to the prime minister's spokesman.

At the Westminster Correspondents» Dinner in April the then chancellor won rave reviews from lobby journalists after he skewered a host of his fellow Tory MPs with a series of amusing jibes.

With parliament due for substantial renovations in years to come, there have been suggestions that lobby journalists could be forced out the Palace of Westminster.

politics.co.uk's lobby journalist is mingling around parliament trying to pin MPs down to find out what they think of the resignation.

Liz Kendall has spoken to lobby journalists about defence spending, free schools, Labour's future and the prospect of being endorsed by Tony Blair.

The man in line to be the next leader of the Liberal Democrats was speaking to lobby journalists at a press gallery lunch in Westminster.

They maintain databases of lobbying contracts, campaign expenditures and donations that are publicly available, and as Horner noted, have been mined by good - government advocates and journalists to raise questions about lawmakers» motivations and potential conflicts of interest.

The revelation prompted one lobby journalist to brand Davis «the superman of Brexit».

Just minutes until lobby starts, but Downing Street has been briefing journalists to play down any expectation of a decision today.

He rowed back on previous remarks suggesting ministers would have to resign if they wanted to campaign for Britain's exit from the EU by suggesting that lobby journalists had got the wrong end of the stick.

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.

A veteran political journalist for The Daily News was arrested Wednesday for violating a cellphone ban in the lobby of the New York state Senate, only to be quickly released by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Since he's now a senior Minister in two departments, and has a worldview untainted by fashion and a way of expressing it unconstrained by inhibition, I am surprised that Hayes has not been better introduced to voters by lobby journalists and others.

Only 5 of the 7 lobby journalists are employed by the types of news organisation to which aspirants will routinely apply in the hope of one day receiving the honour of a lobby pass.

Major events such as this Rio summit, attended by literally thousands of delegates and even more non-governmental observers and journalists, spawn countless texts: draft statements — at times revised by the hour, press releases, position statements by lobbying groups and more.

The petition calls on WTTG General Manger Patrick Paolini to fire Miller for spending «most of her career openly lobbying against the District's gun laws,» instead of avoiding political activities that undermine her independence and impartiality as a journalist.

Twice daily a select coterie of political journalists («the lobby») is ushered into either the premises of The Foreign Press Association or the Lobby Room in the House of Commons where they they partake in a question and answer session with a civil servant (the «Prime Minister's Official Spokesman»).