Liberal Democrats
Birds of a feather: how the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Party shapes up
Posted by Mark Pack at Tue, 13/07/2010 - 7:57am in Political commentary
The June/July edition of Parliamentary Brief ran this piece looking at the state of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Party:
Mental health and substance misuse take centre stage in Liberal Democrats' health proposals
Posted by Caroline Maxwell at Wed, 14/04/2010 - 2:58pm in Health Mandate commentary, Political commentary
Given its importance to the electorate, the NHS was notable in the Lib Dem manifesto launch for its marginality. Relegated from the front page - only fair taxes, fair chances (for children), a fair future (by creating jobs) and a fair deal (on politics) made it here. The NHS occupied instead only a handful of pages in the chapter entitled ‘your life'.
Clegg promises to tell the whole truth
Posted by Rupert Lewis at Wed, 14/04/2010 - 2:51pm in Political commentary
Today it was the turn of the Liberal Democrats to set out their stall to the British electorate as they unveiled their manifesto and spelled out the party's vision of a Liberal Democrat Britain.
In the balance: what does a hung Parliament mean for health?
Posted by Sarah Winstone at Mon, 22/02/2010 - 11:37am in Health Mandate commentary, Political commentary
As the end of the 2005-2010 Parliament approaches, and the political classes gear themselves up for the general election, each of the political parties' health teams will be looking to prove that they have the big ideas to take the NHS forward in a period of tight public finance but escalating public expectation.
Which politicians got the most media coverage during October?
Posted by Mark Pack at Mon, 02/11/2009 - 5:03pm in Political commentary
Following up our coverage of which senior politicians were the best gatherers of media coverage during their party conferences, Mandate has now been tracking their successes and failures at getting print media coverage during October.
The Conservative top ten is much the same as during their conference, with just Andrew Lansley replacing David Willetts in the top ten whilst the top five places are unchanged:
The media league table: how did the Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet do?
Posted by Mark Pack at Fri, 25/09/2009 - 1:11pm in Political commentary
The power and importance of MPs is a factor not only of the posts they hold and their behind-the-scenes influence but also their media savvy. So how did the members of the Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet do during their conference week at gathering media coverage? Mandate has crunched the numbers, looking at coverage secured in the print media and their online versions over the Lib Dem conference, and here are the top 15 in order of volume of coverage:
1. Nick Clegg
2. Vince Cable
3. Chris Huhne
4. Steve Webb
5. Danny Alexander
Piers Morgan – the scourge of the Liberal Democrats?
Posted by john at Fri, 20/06/2008 - 8:07am in
Only last month, Nick Clegg was suffered the ignominy of a Piers Morgan stitch up in the luxuriantly glossy pages of GQ.
This prominent men’s monthly contains a fair spread of politically-flavoured articles and has featured both Cameron and Brown in recent months (Dave famously enjoying a front cover no less).
This being the case, the Lib Dem PR “fixer” obviously thought they were on to a sure thing when it comes to media exposure for the party’s ambitious young leader.
I imagine their mortification when the piece’s pull-out l
