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EU campaign: is it make your mind up time?

22 October 2015

News that one of the Home Secretary’s closest advisers and a long-standing Conservative campaigner will leave the Home Office to campaign to leave the EU shows that Westminster insiders are already picking their sides. Stephen Parkinson, Theresa May’s longest-serving special adviser, will join Matthew Elliott and Dominic Cummings (former Gove SpAd) at Vote Leave – an offshoot of Business For Britain. For the campaign this is a prize hire – Parkinson has experience as the national organiser for the NO to AV campaign, served in CCHQ and in Lord Ashcroft’s target seat campaign. How long before others follow suit? Read more

Sadiq Khan’s team and policies

11 September 2015

Sadiq won the contest to be Labour’s candidate for London Mayor by a clear margin today. He is a very smart, thoroughly decent guy who will make a good Mayor, if he can beat the Tory’s likely candidate, Zac Goldsmith.   Here are three quick thoughts on today’s result. Read more

Lunch with… Gill Morris

19 June 2015

In the second installment of a new Public Affairs News feature, PRCA director general Francis Ingham dines with Connect Communications chair Gill Morris in Shepherd’s restaurant.

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Connect’s Top 10 Moments of Polling Day Night

8 May 2015

At Connect HQ we were up all night watching the results come in. Our David Button takes a look at the 10 key moments of the night… Not necessarily in chronological order (and not including Boris). Read more

Look “beneath the bonnet” to understand why it is not surprising that growth is slowing

28 April 2015

Official figures show that the rate of economic growth halved in the three months to the end of March. When you look ‘beneath the bonnet’ at the UK economic engine this is not surprising given our weak and unbalanced economy where labour productivity growth has stalled and momentum is overly reliant on household spending. Read more

Leadership battles ahead

26 March 2015

It is not just the General Election result that is proving very difficult to predict with any confidence. There are also huge question marks against all the five main (non nationalist) party leaders being in place after what will, one way or another, be a momentous night on 7th May. Read more