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Helen Duffett

How would you use an extra £600? Preview tonight’s Lib Dem Party Political Broadcast

By Helen Duffett | Wed 6th February 2013 - 5:03 pm

The latest Lib Dem Party Political Broadcast is airing tonight, with a variety of people telling how they’d use an extra £600 per year, thanks to Liberal Democrats cutting income tax:

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Helen Duffett

Tim Farron gives party members a sneak preview of tomorrow’s Party Political Broadcast

By Helen Duffett | Tue 21st February 2012 - 2:50 pm

Party President Tim Farron has emailed Lib Dem members with an exclusive preview of tomorrow night’s Party Political Broadcast, with a reminder to sign the petition to fast track the Lib Dem £10,000 income tax threshold policy:

The Liberal Democrats want to give tax cuts to millions not millionaires – to put more money back in your pockets and take the poorest workers out of tax completely.

Tomorrow night you’ll have the chance to see a party political broadcast about our plans to do this.

In the meantime you can do two things:

Watch an exclusive preview of the broadcast:

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Mark Pack

Susan Kramer for Mayor of London – the 2000 party political broadcast

By Mark Pack | Sun 16th January 2011 - 4:15 pm

Back in 2000, Susan Kramer was the first (and in many ways most successful) Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London. Here is her party political broadcast from that campaign, featuring several familiar faces including a young Mike Tuffrey and also Susan’s husband, John, who died tragically early in 2006:

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Mark Pack

Five of the best political adverts: Britain deserves better

By Mark Pack | Thu 9th December 2010 - 10:25 am

This week we’re running a series featuring five of the most effective political adverts. After looking at the US and Australia, today it is back to the UK and the 1997 general election campaign:

Yesterday’s Australian advert, It’s Time, looked as much like a music video as a political advert. Music too played a major role in one of the UK Labour Party’s 1997 general election broadcasts, and the most powerful of all the ones I’ve seen ‘live’ at the time of broadcast.

As in the Australian Labor Party’s case, Labour too had been out of power for a long time – 18 years this time – and also faced an incumbent government that many felt had passed its sell-by date. The genius of the Labour ’97 effort was to put together ingredients which usually featured in Conservative broadcasts – patriotic music, Union Jacks, Conservative ministers, celebrating Conservative members – and turn them into a devastating attack, raising fears of what another term of Conservative government might do.

As I noted in my previous blog post about this broadcast, watch out for the very different way in which Ken Clarke was viewed then compared with now:

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Helen Duffett

Don’t let anyone tell you it can’t be different: the second Lib Dem election broadcast

By Helen Duffett | Fri 30th April 2010 - 6:40 pm

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Mark Pack

Party Election Broadcasts: BBC Trust consults on new complaints procedure

By Mark Pack | Thu 5th November 2009 - 9:20 am

The BBC Trust is running an online survey asking for views on its plans for a new complaints procedure for Party Election Broadcasts. Although the BBC generally steers clear of the content of PEBs – leaving that to the parties in question – there are often issues around who gets how many and when they are shown.

Therefore it is good to see the BBC Trust proposing a clearer and more rigorous process – and also asking for views on these proposals.

(Controversies over the content of PEBs also sometimes rears its head, though these proposals do not cover the system for …

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Mark Pack

Party Political Broadcasts: Ofcom proposes some tweaks to the rules

By Mark Pack | Sun 20th September 2009 - 7:20 pm

You have until 25 November to give Ofcom your views of their proposed amendments to the rules governing Party Political Broadcasts. Ofcom’s rules apply to the commercial outlets that run PPBs – Channels 3, 4 and Five, Classic FM, talkSPORT and Absolute AM. (The BBC and S4C have their own rules.)

Aside from some tidying up and clearer processes, the changes proposed look sensible and are:

  • to provide that the number of PEBs allocated to major parties and other registered parties should be determined having regard

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Stephen Tall

Conversations with Nick Clegg, part deux

By Stephen Tall | Thu 14th May 2009 - 5:44 pm

If you missed it last night, fear not! The latest Lib Dem party election broadcast is yours to view via the magic of YouTube, below – in fact, why watch it just once?

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