The media league table: how did the Conservative Shadow Cabinet do?
Posted by Mark Pack at Fri, 09/10/2009 - 9:55am in Political commentary
Rounding off our analysis of print media coverage gained by each of the (Shadow) Cabinet teams during their party's autumn conference, here are the top fifteen Conservatives. As with our previous Labour and Liberal Democrat lists, it's in descending order of volume of coverage:
1. David Cameron
2. George Osborne
3. William Hague
4. Ken Clarke
5. Chris Grayling
6. Eric Pickles
7. Michael Gove
8. Liam Fox
9. David Willetts
10. Theresa May
11=. Andrew Lansley
11=. Theresa Villiers
13. Greg Clark
14=. Dominic Grieve
14=. Philip Hammond
Philip Hammond's joint fourteenth place highlights how influence and media coverage don't always go hand in hand, for his role in setting Conservative policy and priorities is far greater than many of those above him in the list. On the other hand, Ken Clarke's status as one of the big beasts of the Conservative Party is reinforced by his fourth place.
The top six across all three main parties for getting coverage during their own conference were:
1. Gordon Brown
2. David Cameron
3. Peter Mandelson
4. George Osborne
5. Alistair Darling
6. Nick Clegg
His third place is an example, once again, of Peter Mandelson's media value and influence.
Tagged with: Party Conferences, Conservative Party
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Where does Boris Johnson fit into that top six? I realise he is not in any form of cabinet but he almost certainly got more coverage than Darling.
Interesting question Tom!
Boris Johnson would have been third in the Conservative list, but overall he wouldn't have made it in to the top six. Both Alistair Darling and Nick Clegg, for example, got comfortably more coverage than Boris Johnson did.
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