| 1 (-) | David Cameron | 2492 |
| 2 (+9) | David Willetts | 360 |
| 3 (-1) | David Davis | 330 |
| 4 (-1) | William Hague | 309 |
| 5 (-1) | George Osborne | 247 |
| 6 (-) | Andrew Lansley | 121 |
| 7= (+7) | Alan Duncan | 80 |
| 7= (-) | Chris Grayling | 80 |
| 9 (-) | Francis Maude | 60 |
| 10 (+7) | Oliver Letwin | 59 |
| 11 (+5) | David Mundell | 55 |
| 12 (-) | Hugo Swire | 51 |
| 13= (-8) | Liam Fox | 47 |
| 13= (-) | Caroline Spelman | 47 |
| 15 (+4) | Oliver Heald | 34 |
| 16 (-6) | Peter Ainsworth | 28 |
| 17 (+4) | Cheryl Gillan | 25 |
| 18= (-10) | Philip Hammond | 22 |
| 18= (+5) | David Lidington | 22 |
| 20 (-) | Andrew Mitchell | 21 |
| 21 (-6) | Theresa May | 10 |
| 22 (-4) | Theresa Villiers | 8 |
| 23 (-1) | Lord Strathclyde | 5 |
| - | David Maclean | 131 |
| - | Graham Brady | 107 |
Monday, June 04, 2007
Shadow Cabinet Media Tarts List for May
Each month I track the number of media mentions for each member of the Shadow Cabinet through Lexis Nexis with the help of Julian Nicholson. Obviously you cannot judge the performance of someone purely on the number of press mentions they get, but it is an increasingly big part of any politician's job.
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This is interesting and does reveal the extent of the problem of Tory front bench anonymity. On the other hand, much depends on how much the leader of a party is willing to promote a collegiate style. Modern politics demands almost a presidential approach, even in a parliamentary democracy, and Cameron is responding to that. We cannot therefore always blame the shadow cabinet themselves for their lack of profile, especially when it is presumably granted or denied by the leader's own PR machine!
And in the wake of Willetts - can you blame him for being chary of shadow cabinet independence?!
I would question the value of any league table where one wins by being eviscerated by the press.
It would however be useful to have Boris as a benchmark.
In fact it would be nice to have 'the Boris' as the unit of publicity.
e.g. This month Cameron has achieved a publicity rating of 4.3 Borises. Fox only got 0.08 of a Boris a shameful performance.
off topic i know but how about calculating blairs average speed since he handed his notice in.
Hague`s performance continues to be unacceptable
Patrick McLoughlin?
Also, please can you do the same for the Labour cabinet. would be especially interesting to see which deputy leadership candidate gets the most media.
Willetts seems to have achieved a publicity rating of -347.8 Borises. Is this a record?
But this is somewhat meaningless if many of the press mentions Camerong was getting were negative articles - or is there really no such thing as bad publicity ??
Do we really believe David Davis is looking at this list and thinking 'Hmm..I've dropped one place in the charts; can't have that - I know I'll make some damn fool comment about the Grammar Schools fiasco to get my second place slot back..'..
I can't see it myself..
Theres a e-petition to keep the 10p tax band,this is something that is going to effect a lot of people on low income.if you have a moment please could you sign it.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Savethe10pcband/
Now that our kind host Mr Dale has decided to allow posters to use Anglo Saxon phrases to describe folk rather than modern swear words I would just like to point out that I think David Cameron is (a) quaint!
No doubt fans of Chaucer will understand what I mean.
Hitch, that was only on the Mellor thread!
Hitch -Did you know that Chaucer is the first writer to use the Northern accent to denote simplicity , in the Reeves tale.
Hmmm now I thought the whole thing with a blog was that you got some posts every now and then , or is that just me ?
I agree that it would be very interesting to see how Boris Johnson compares.
Time to get Maclean and Brady in the 1st XI surely? Please please please!
PS ... only the Mellor thread? Iain, how about the Irish elections "Don't complain" rant. Half a dozen Fs and a C in that. Your abstinence was sadly very short lived.
So below runaway leader Dave that,s two brains followed by two manse followed by no mane followed by no br, hang on a minute, I'll get to the point soon, i promise i will.....
CAMERON MEY GET THE MOST PRESS COVERAGE.ALAS SO DID BLAIR.I WAS ALWAYS TAUGHT EMPTY VESSELS MAKE THE MOST NOISE.
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