Shadow Cabinet Media Tarts: May

Each month Julian Nicholson and I compile a list of the best media performers in the Shadow Cabinet using mentions on Lexis Nexis as the index.

May
1	-	David Cameron	2742
2	-	George Osborne	318
3	-	David Davis	248
4	-	William Hague	161
5	10	Andrew Lansley	133
6	8	Chris Grayling	125
7	4	Eric Pickles	111
8	-	Michael Gove	80
9	-3	Alan Duncan	73
10	-	Nick Herbert	64
11	-2	Liam Fox	63
12	1	Philip Hammond	51
13	3	Grant Shapps	48
14	9	Andrew Mitchell	43
15	5	Francis Maude	42
16	6	David Mundell	40
17	1	Theresa May	35
18	5	Cheryl Gillan	33
19	-2	Caroline Spelman	27
20	8	Oliver Letwin	26
21=	-9	Theresa Villiers	22
21=	-	Jeremy Hunt	22
23	-4	David Willetts	18
24	-17	Peter Ainsworth	15
25	-20	Owen Paterson	10
26	-	Patrick McLoughlin	9
27	1	David Lidington	4
28=	-5	Sayeeda Warsi	3
28=	-	Lord Strathclyde	3
30	-3	Dame Pauline Neville-Jones	2
31	-	Baroness Anelay of St Johns	1
Liberal Democrats
-		Nick Clegg 455

* The reason for Owen Paterson's high placing last month was due to the fact that a new blockbuster film was released, and the director was called Owen Paterson!