Columnists
Kevin Maguire
Kevin Maguire is associate editor (politics) at the Daily Mirror and tweets at twitter.com/kevin_maguire
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01/07/2010
Lib Dem loyalists will now have to jostle at the bar
As is reported in the ‘Destination Liverpool’ feature in this edition of Public Affairs News, the village fete that historically was the Liberal Democrat conference will grow into a small town in September – a hitherto low-key event suddenly up in lights.
Tracey Crouch MP
Tracey Crouch is Conservative MP for Chatham & Aylesford and tweets at @tracey_crouch. She is a former PA pro at insurance firm Aviva and the agency Westminster Strategy.
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01/07/2010
The good, the bad, the ugly – part two
My fellow new Public Affairs News columnist Luciana Berger MP wrote in this slot last month about ‘the good, the bad and the ugly’ lobbying communications that she had been sent in her first few weeks in as an MP. She was spot on – but there is at least another column’s worth to be said.
Jon Craig
Jon Craig is chief political correspondent at Sky News.
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29/07/2010
Lib Dem activists are the coalition’s biggest danger
Where could signs of a split appear in the coalition? Among Lib Dem backbench MPs? In the cabinet? Or among disgruntled Lib Dem activists?
Luciana Berger MP
Luciana Berger is Labour/Co-op MP for Liverpool Wavertree and tweets at twitter.com/lucianaberger. She is a former PA pro at the NHS confederation, Accenture and Labour Friends of Israel.
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29/07/2010
MPs lobbying other MPs for support
MPs recently had the opportunity to elect members to the 22 select committees. Parliamentary reforms mean committee places are now up for democratic grabs, rather than being in the gift of the whips. And many of them were hotly contested.
