This is a guest post by Dr Stuart Thomson, head of public affairs for BDB Pitmans. Not everyone who comes into public affairs has intentions to do so. Very often members of a communications team ...

Last week’s Environmental Audit Select Committee session with Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary George Eustice served as a salutary reminder that even before the COVID-19 crisis, this Government had a lot on its plate. ...

For most external relations teams, managing relationships with a variety of audiences and stakeholders is at the very core of what they do. Systematic and regular touch points are how relationships are tested, along with ...

The Top 10 Green Blog ranking was last updated 03/06/2020.   The fundamentals of working with bloggers are the same as with traditional journalists at traditional media outlets: respect their schedules; take time to read ...

Matthew Conway is the director of public affairs at UK Finance, the collective voice of the banking and finance sector. COVID-19 presents the biggest challenge it has faced since the financial crisis of the late ...

Julian Ellerby is the Director of Local London – a strategic partnership of eight boroughs in the east and north east of the capital. The national pandemic means we need to review how we approach ...

The latest Vuelio webinar heard from an expert panel comprising of Robin Gordon-Farleigh, a former Downing Street communications strategist and adviser to two former Prime Ministers, Nicole Wilkins, Publisher of Foresight News and Rob Dale, ...

Join three experts in the UK public affairs sector to discuss how the sector is reacting to the COVID-19 pandemic and what should be done to maintain policy engagement. It has been confirmed by the ...

 The SNP’s Shadow Health and Social Care SNP Spokesperson, Dr Philippa Whitford MP, writes that extensive testing and contact tracing must be established before the current lockdown can be reviewed. Boris Johnson’s Government was apparently ...

The Head of Media at the Charities Aid Foundation, Caroline Mallan, welcomes the additional Government support for charities announced last week by Chancellor Rishi Sunak. At the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), we were very pleased ...

Former Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael asks that the Government makes more support available to small businesses and the self-employed, or risk a far smaller and less vibrant self-employed sector in the future. It takes a ...

The think tank Policy Exchange hosted a webinar this week bringing together some of the players who responded to the last global crisis: the banking crisis of 2008-9. Policy Exchange hosted a webinar to discuss ...

Liberal Democrat House of Lords spokesperson for Digital, Lord Clement-Jones, urges the Government to think again about how best to support the self-employed who cannot survive until June without any financial help, and to do ...

The Top 10 Political Blog ranking was last updated 25/03/2020.   The fundamentals of working with bloggers are the same as with traditional journalists at traditional media outlets: respect their schedules; take time to read ...

The Head of Public Affairs at the law firm BDB Pitmans, Stuart Thomson, offers his suggestions on how to best use the additional time we have when working from home, to further our personal development. ...

Conservative MP Bob Blackman writes about his journey from being drawn second in the Private Members’ Bill ballot to passing a ground-breaking piece of legislation: the 2018 Homelessness Reduction Act. The Act ‘places a duty ...

Former Business Minister and Tesco director Baroness Neville-Rolfe writes: ‘Supermarkets are on the frontline in crises such as this one with their unique knowledge of the supply chain, a vast employee base of all ages ...

Vuelio’s Sam Webber assesses the latest Government response to the Coronavirus pandemic, including a new fiscal stimulus and school closures. The Coronavirus pandemic has now affected every aspect of Government and public life in a ...

Much of the media commentary in response to the Budget statement has been positive for Rishi Sunak, barely four weeks after he was appointed as Chancellor. At 39 he is the youngest Chancellor since George ...

Scottish National Party MP Hannah Bardell writes following her House of Commons debate on lesbian, bisexual and trans women’s health inequalities. I came out literally as I was being elected, initially to myself, then later to ...