| 1 (-) | David Cameron | 1932 |
| 2 (-) | David Davis | 334 |
| 3 (+1) | William Hague | 305 |
| 4 (-1) | George Osborne | 227 |
| 5 (-) | Liam Fox | 224 |
| 6 (+1) | Andrew Lansley | 138 |
| 7 (-1) | Chris Grayling | 77 |
| 8 (+4) | Philip Hammond | 66 |
| 9 (+8) | Francis Maude | 51 |
| 10 (-) | Peter Ainsworth | 41 |
| 11 (-) | David Willetts | 38 |
| 12 (-4) | Hugo Swire | 37 |
| 13 (-4) | Caroline Spelman | 37 |
| 14 (+2) | Alan Duncan | 28 |
| 15 (-1) | Theresa May | 24 |
| 16 (-1) | David Mundell | 23 |
| 17 (+2) | Oliver Letwin | 17 |
| 18 (+5) | Theresa Villiers | 15 |
| 19 (-1) | Oliver Heald | 14 |
| 20 (+1) | Andrew Mitchell | 12 |
| 21 (-7) | Cheryl Gillan | 9 |
| 22 (-2) | Lord Strathclyde | 3 |
| 23 (-1) | David Lidington | 1 |
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Shadow Cabinet Media Tarts List for April
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. I'll leave you to interpret the results!
Not counting Boris Johnson articles as Boris Johnson media mentions? Why not, aren't most of them under his real name?
ReplyDelete"I'll leave you to interpret the results!"
ReplyDeleteOh go on - tell us what you think they mean...
Raincoaster, Boris is not in the shadow cabinet so is not included in the list.
ReplyDeleteObviously you cannot judge the performance of someone purely on the number of press mentions they get . . .
ReplyDeleteIndeed so. This reminds me a bit of when David Blunkett was in trouble (the first time). Responding to the claim that his mind might not be fully on the job, his people replied that since the storm had broken, Blunkett had clearly been an effective performer. The evidence? The number of media interviews he had given . . .
Well, now I know who Philip Hammond is.
ReplyDeleteDominic Grieve is apparently also not in the shadow cabinet.
ReplyDeleteHow strange.
No, but he ought to be.
ReplyDeleteHow on earth can Andrew Lansley be lower than Liam 'Dr' Fox, when he has the open goal of Patricia Hewitt on the other side ?
ReplyDeleteThat's it, I forgot - he relies on the superior media skills of David Davis to do all the hard work for him.
Hmm.. I'm looking forward to your equally scientific 'shaggability' index for the local elections..
ReplyDeleteThis doesn't add up one little bit. Your data appears to suggest David Lidington is the least high-profile at a time of massive changes in Northern Ireland politics - hardly likely. In fact, it has seemed at times as if he IS the Northern Ireland secretary so ubiquitous has he been on our screens recently and certainly speaking more sense on the subject than Hain and Blair put together.
ReplyDeleteTime to re-check, I think!
Why didn't you post my comment from this morning saying this post was boring. It is and I was right. You've only got 10 comments (12 including the 2 from me telling you its boring). You should put up the constructive criticism not censor it.
ReplyDeleteYour post on Lord Browne, on the other hand is fantastic.
Anonymous, because an anonymous post which just says "boring post" is of no use to anyone. I always reserve the right, as I have stated before, to delete anonymous posts for whatever reason. Couldn;t quite see the point of leaving that comment. But maybe I just got out of bed the wrong side!
ReplyDeleteWell Davis certainly spends most of his waking hours trying to work out how to get more press coverage, so maybe he'll eventually get to the top of the table. In his own mind at least.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I don't think it's particularly in the interests of the party for any of those people, with the exception of Cameron to be in the media. But good for their vanity, I'm sure
Liam Fox's job should be to be mentioned as little as possible. For the Conservatives' sake.
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