3 September 2019
Blakeney appoints Jonathan Lomax as Managing Director
Blakeney announced today that Jonathan Lomax has joined the business as its Managing Director. Jonathan will lead the Bl...
Read full article12 August 2019
Lobbying in a time of deadlock
It’s almost a cliché of good public affairs practice that to successfully lobby government you shouldn’t just highlight ...
Read full article7 August 2019
Mistaken identity: where should public affairs fit in business?
When I started my career in Parliament nearly fifteen years ago I didn’t fully appreciate what ‘public affairs’ was. It ...
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6 August 2019
The five golden rules of a Ministerial visit
The Prime Minister, Cabinet and Ministerial team have all changed, and that means that communications teams are faced wi...
Read full article5 August 2019
Boris Johnson’s gamble, Jo Swinson’s opportunity?
Boris Johnson has defined the success of his premiership by his ability to take the UK out of the European Union by Octo...
Read full article22 July 2019
Lessons from Theresa May: Involvement beats exclusion
Former US President Jimmy Carter famously went back to teaching Sunday School after he left office. If May follows his e...
Read full article9 May 2019
PRWeek UK Top 150: Bubbling Under
PRWeek publishes its list of the Top 150 UK PR consultancies each year. This year, Blakeney was highlighted as one of th...
Read full article22 October 2018
Politicians didn’t cause the lack of trust in business. Business did
It feels like no one trusts anyone anymore. Voters don’t trust the politicians they elect, politicians in the same party...
Read full article30 January 2018
"I have a vast amount of experience", and other mistakes to avoid on your next job application.
Blakeney is growing quickly, so we posted a job ad on LinkedIn in late November. The job ad said that we were "looking f...
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