Public Affairs: Soap Box - Ed McRandal, public affairs consultant, Insight Public Affairs
30 Nov 2012
When you've delivered what many view to be a toxic blow to your brand, lancing that boil is the first step to repairing your shattered image.
A new year and a new start.
When you've delivered what many view to be a toxic blow to your brand, lancing that boil is the first step to repairing your shattered image.
The recent appointment of a Downing Street adviser to Wonga's government affairs team has whipped up calls for tightening of the 'revolving door' rules on former government officials becoming lobbyists.
MPs returned to Westminster this week with the political focus shifting from 'one nation' and 'spreading privilege' to the nuts and bolts of government and parliamentary scrutiny.
The Government faces a dilemma. The nation's roads are at capacity, yet people's desire to own a car shows no sign of abating.
The new political year began in earnest this week, with the Government declaring it to be the year that 'we go for it'.
The recently announced 'Strategic Relations' initiative, or 'Ministerial Buddy Scheme', has already proved to be a bit of a PR disaster for the Government.
Ed Miliband may have headed off on holiday with a new sense of purpose and his critics silenced, for now.
'What's next?' President Jed Bartlet would often bark in The West Wing.
It's a year since Parliament was injected with 232 bright young things.