Labour plans to push 30-second PPB spots
30 Apr 1999 | by Our Parliamentary Correspondent
Labour is to demand the right to show 30-second TV broadcasts in a radical shake-up of political advertising.
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The Department of Social Security is talking to agencies about a pounds 4 million TV and press campaign to persuade the public that benefit fraud is wrong.
Labour is to demand the right to show 30-second TV broadcasts in a radical shake-up of political advertising.
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