lobby correspondent

A political journalist since 1971, she became a lobby correspondent in 1974.

Ten or even five years ago, a dozen lobby correspondents would dictate the next day's headlines.

Before joining the BBC he spent six years as a lobby correspondent at Westminster.

A former Morning Star journalist, to which he still contributes, he was appointed as a parliamentary lobby correspondent at the age of 19.

He joined the agency's political staff in the Houses of Parliament in 1962 and became a lobby correspondent in 1973.

Knighted in 1909, he was the first lobby correspondent to be seen as the social equal of the politicians in the Commons whom he reported.

This suggest that, in many cases, it is not true to say that lobby correspondents slavishly follow the Downing Street line on a story.

In 1948, she married fellow House of Commons lobby correspondent John Cameron White.

He joined the Manchester Guardian in 1953, working as a lobby correspondent in the House of Commons.

For instance, on one occasion at lunch with lobby correspondents he was asked who he thought would succeed Thatcher as PM.

The kind of bravura, firecracker performance that weary lobby correspondents had thought had long since been consigned to the romance of history.

He was The Financial Times Lobby Correspondent at Westminster in 1976 and he wrote for The Economist in 1982.

The lobby correspondents seemed to be in agreement that Raymond had held his own on both occasions and that, if anything, Simon Kerslake had underestimated him.

He became the Mails lobby correspondent, then in 1962 became Chief Reporter with the Daily Sketch, and in 1969 was promoted to Executive Editor.

Following his graduation, Taylor was employed as a journalist by the Aberdeen-based Press & Journal before a six-year spell as a lobby correspondent at Westminster.

Stuart Gray, the lobby correspondent for THE SCOTSMAN, needed to speak to him urgently.

The spokesperson addresses a small group of press and media correspondents, known as lobby correspondents, each morning to deliver statements on current events on behalf of the Prime Minister.

He was a lobby correspondent at Westminster for over twenty years, and is the former Political Editor of Independent Television News (1975-81) and The Times newspaper (1981-86).

He stayed away from the House of Commons where the lobby correspondents were hanging about like hyenas, scampering off to phone their papers with even the rumour of a rumour.

His success in the McBride affair has occasioned serious criticism from him of the UK lobby correspondent system, which he believes has succumbed to the ethos of political spin.

He worked for the Outward Bound Sea School in 1949 and as the House of Commons lobby correspondent of The Yorkshire Observer from 1949 to 1950.

Bevins started at the Liverpool Post in 1967, moved to London as its lobby correspondent in 1970, and then joined the political staff of the Sunday Express in 1973.

Even twelve months ago, the issue was the political flavour of the month, of real concern and anxiety only to a half, a handful of parliamentarians and a bar full of lobby correspondents.

Lobby correspondent: Peter Oborne, presenter of Channel 4's Dispatches documentary Inside Britain's Israel Lobby, in Westminster, London.

(And so much of journalism is the "sentry go": the stake-out, the hand-out, the lobby correspondents attending on their "source" who knows as well as they do when the deadline is coming.