by Chris Rogers | 13 May 2016 | Education & Children's Services, Politics, PR and Media Relations
Last week Education Secretary Nicky Morgan pulled an about-face on the government’s academies programme so abrupt, you could almost hear the screeching tyres as she slammed on the brakes to pull a U-turn. The climbdown on the compulsory academisation of schools was a...
by Chris Rogers | 24 Mar 2016 | Politics, PR and Media Relations
In the run-up to the General Election last year, much was made of Tory strategist Lynton Crosby’s insistence of ‘scraping off the barnacles’. The Conservative electoral campaign was a ship, and anything outside of the core messaging to voters was a barnacle on the...
by Chris Rogers | 10 Mar 2016 | Politics
Today Dan Jarvis arguably took the first steps in a bid to become Labour leader with a speech for the Demos think-tank setting out his vision for the Party. Echoing Tony Blair, Jarvis suggested that Labour must be “tough on inequality, tough on the causes of...
by Chris Rogers | 1 Mar 2016 | European Union, Politics
It had been just five years since the referendum on Europe and the Party was splitting. In fact, it had all but split: the ideologues, on the losing side of the European vote, had taken control of the Party and the moderates were giving up and going their own way. The...
by Chris Rogers | 12 Feb 2016 | Politics
Could we about to see both major parties fractured at the same time? It’s not as outlandish idea as you might think. Historically the British political system has seen one major party in the ascendency and one in at least partial decline. And the one with the whip...
