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					<title><![CDATA[MPs call for compulsory lobbying register]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[An influential committee of MPs is proposing radical regulation of the UK lobbying industry - including the creation of a statutory register of lobbyists.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE: Gould and Lammy at Labour blogging meeting]]></title>
					<link>http://www.prweek.com/uk/sectors/publicaffairs/article/870289/EXCLUSIVE-Gould-Lammy-Labour-blogging-meeting/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[New Labour guru and Freud Communications non-executive director Philip Gould is adding his weight to Labour's efforts to have a stronger voice in the blogosphere.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Ofgem chief joins Downing Street]]></title>
					<link>http://www.prweek.com/uk/sectors/publicaffairs/article/869836/Ofgem-chief-joins-Downing-Street/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[The head of government affairs at Ofgem is moving to Downing Street to take up a role as a special adviser to the Prime Minister.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Tories make Hunt online election guru]]></title>
					<link>http://www.prweek.com/uk/sectors/publicaffairs/article/868743/Tories-Hunt-online-election-guru/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[The Conservative Party has put frontbench MP Jeremy Hunt in charge of its online campaigning as it gears up to fight the next election over the web.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[The Week in Lobbying]]></title>
					<link>http://www.prweek.com/uk/sectors/publicaffairs/article/867386/Week-Lobbying/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[Weber Shandwick will find out in the next few days whether it has clung on to its lucrative public affairs account with Nestle.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Lobbying Target - Damian Green, shadow minister for immigration]]></title>
					<link>http://www.prweek.com/uk/sectors/publicaffairs/article/867385/Lobbying-Target---Damian-Green-shadow-minister-immigration/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[Green has become something of a household name after he was controversially arrested last week in connection with Home Office leaks.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Redundancy fears hit FD lobbying arm]]></title>
					<link>http://www.prweek.com/uk/sectors/publicaffairs/article/867384/Redundancy-fears-hit-FD-lobbying-arm/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[All but one of FD's public affairs team are fighting for their jobs following last week's news that the agency intends to make 12 people redundant (PRWeek, 28 November).]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[New focus for Battersea]]></title>
					<link>http://www.prweek.com/uk/sectors/publicaffairs/article/867383/New-focus-Battersea/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[Bell Pottinger Public Affairs (BPPA) is to replace Quatro Public Relations as the agency responsible for pushing through plans to redevelop Battersea Power Station.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Lobbying target - Beverley Hughes, minister for children, schools and families]]></title>
					<link>http://www.prweek.com/uk/sectors/publicaffairs/article/865724/Lobbying-target---Beverley-Hughes-minister-children-schools-families/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[The children's minister has survived a resignation scandal and proved to be a steady pair of hands in a position of critical importance to Gordon Brown.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[The Week in Lobbying]]></title>
					<link>http://www.prweek.com/uk/sectors/publicaffairs/article/865723/Week-Lobbying/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[Sovereign Strategy has landed a big-money brief with the Kuwait National Petroleum Company. The agency, headed by executive chairman Alan Donnelly, will advise on corporate responsibility, crisis comms and strategic comms. Sovereign will have a permanent team based in Kuwait to work on the retainer.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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