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Govt slams Tory ad plans.(government)(advertising)(Brief article)
Labour claims Tories' adspend plan will hit high-profile public health campaigns.
Labour has warned that vital government campaigns will be scrapped under controversial Conservative Party plans to slash the Whitehall advertising budget.
The two main parties clashed after the Tories announced they would cap the budget of COI if they win power. The party claimed it could save taxpayers pounds 230 million a year by returning spending to the level it was at when Labour came to office in 1997.
Labour accused the Tories of getting their sums wrong and producing a 'back of an envelope' policy as they scrabbled around for 'bogus savings'.
At the Tory conference in Birmingham, the Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne, promised a squeeze on Whitehall spending on ads, and the use of consultants to allow a two-year freeze on Council Tax bills if local authorities keep their planned rises ...
- NORWAY: CONSERVATIVES SEEK EVEN TIGHTER BUDGET - REPORT.(Conservative...
- Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database May 16, 2000 700+ words
According to Dagsavisen, the temperature of the Norwegian economy is so high that Conservative Party chairman Jan Petersen is afraid it will soon boil over. He advocates budget austerity in order to dampen consumer spending. A...
- May be nasty; Conservative wars.(dissent in the Conservative Party)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) February 22, 2003 700+ words
Tory tantrums continue, damagingly ONLY seven months into the job, and the Conservative Party chairman, Theresa May, is hanging out to dry. Aides of the leader, Iain Duncan Smith, who appointed her, now say that he...
- News - Tories unveil digital action manifesto.("Digital Action Plan" of...
- Magazine article from: Computing Arnott, Sarah March 17, 2005 700+ words
Byline: Sarah Arnott. Interactive video services for all UK citizens by 2013 is a key commitment of the Conservative Party's Digital Action Plan, published last week in anticipation of a forthcoming election campaign. 'The aim for an incoming...
- Ex-defense minister had gay flings.(Michael Portillo of the Conservative...
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) October 12, 1999 700+ words
Former British defense minister Michael Portillo, widely seen as a possible leader of the Conservative Party, acknowledged in The [London] Times September 9 that he'd hint homosexual experiences as a young man. Asked whether he had...
- Tories court Arscott's candidacy.(Jo Arscott is now a parliamentary candidate...
- Magazine article from: Precision Marketing Rubach, Emma January 30, 2004 700+ words
Former 141 creative director Jo Arscott is being wooed by the Conservative Party as a potential parliamentary candidate. Arscott, one of the highest profile black creatives in direct marketing, is a target...
- Home truths from abroad: the Tories' internal battle over Europe is being won...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) May 23, 1998 700+ words
...being defeated. He controls the timing of the ballot. And loyalty to their leader is still the instinct of most Conservative Party members. So it is unlikely that Tories would vote down a policy to which their leader was personally committed...
- Spot the gaffer. (Jeremy Hanley has proved to be incompetent in his first five...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) December 16, 1995 700+ words
IN JULY John Major sacked Jeremy Hanley, his personal choice as chairman of the Conservative Party, after only a year in the job because Mr Hanley was allegedly prone to gaffes. Brian Mawhinney, the hard man appointed to succeed...
- True Blues: The Politics of Conservative Party Membership.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) October 15, 1994 700+ words
...BLUES: THE POLITICS OF CONSERVATIVE PARTY MEMBERSHIP. By Paul Whiteley...consequences are serious. The Conservative Party depends heavily on individual...the first ever of the Conservative Party outside Westminster. The...