For PR firms operating in the realm of political communications, understanding political party conferences can be an advantage. Christopher McKeon take a look.
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One of PA Media’s most active streams of news coverage comes from its politics team, headed up by Political Editor David Hughes.
With a revolving door of prime ministers, the Covid-19 crisis and its subsequent scandals, the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, and that’s before we even mention Brexit – there never appears to be a day’s rest for any political journalist and David and his team are no exception to that rule.
As the party conference season edges near, the UK’s main political parties will potentially go to their membership for one last time before the possible prospect of a general election next year. David and his team will of course be in the thick of it reporting on all the key stories – ahead of this, David gives us his take on the political landscape in the UK, what can we expect from party conference season, how politics coverage has evolved, and what an average day looks like for him at a party conference, plus much more.
