For months now, we’ve been hearing that the Conservative Party is on track to defeat the ruling Labour Party in the United Kingdom’s coming elections this spring. With that in mind, Fleishman-Hillard’s London office has created “Conservative Insight,” a handy Web site that provides everything you want to know (and probably more about the Tory [...]
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A Guide to the U.K.’s Conservative Party
U.S. Healthcare Reform Debate Goes Global
When one lists the public affairs issues in the U.S. that have a global implications, the issues include financial services, climate change, energy, trade and some others. Healthcare reform is not on the list…until now. Conservatives in the U.S. are using the so-called “failed” government-guaranteed systems around the world to bolster their case against greater [...]
We’re not in Kansas anymore, Mr. Prime Minister
Most people wouldn’t associate The Wizard of Oz with economic policy.
But during a lecture at the Scottish Tory Party conference last Friday sponsored by Fleishman-Hillard Edinburgh, former Scottish Secretary of State Lord Michael Forsyth did just that. Applying the popular movie’s storyline to British economic policy, Forsyth interpreted the iconic tornado that sends Dorothy to [...]
How Members of the European Union Parliament Use the Internet
The Internet is generally having a positive effect on the discourse between citizens and Congress, or at least that is what a large majority of congressional staff reporting from the U.S. believe: “79% percent believe the Internet has made it easier for citizens to become involved in public policy; 55% believe it has increased public [...]
Not Like Those Americans!
Conservative Party Leader David Cameron made brief unscheduled remarks to the conference today to comment on the financial situation. Very moderate tone, even statesmanlike. But, twice during the speech he vowed not to be like those Americans with all their partisan wrangling.
There I sat in the audience slumped in my chair with head bowed in [...]
The Fleishman Team in Birmingham
Rosie Luff escorted me to the Conservative Convention to help me obtain my credentials. Very appropriate since her father is a highly respected Conservative Member of Parliament. Sadly, Rosie shares his conservative orientation. However, a conservative in Great Britain is more like a moderate Democrat, or Libertarian, in the U.S. So, we got along famously. [...]
View from the Window – Birmingham, UK
I just arrived into Birmingham, England for the Annual Conservative Party Meeting. Haven’t left my hotel yet, but it’s already clear that the financial crisis facing the U.S. is also plaguing Great Britain. My driver was listenting to the speech by Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne at the the conference. Osborne was railing [...]
Gordon Brown’s New Cabinet
Our colleagues in London have circulated a very useful report on the cabinet just appointed by Great Britain’s new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. It is an extremely useful document, very informed, incisive and accessible. It is well-suited for sending around to clients. For me, however, it’s a very valuable “cheat sheet,” which [...]
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