Wednesday 14 September, TV Centre, London
With the first of the big-three UK political party conferences starting on Saturday 17 September, a BBC College of Journalism lunchtime seminar will reveal what goes on behind the scenes of these major events.
Former leading spin doctors from all three major UK parties will explain how their press operations work, the strategies they use to influence the media agenda and the issues that will dominate the 2011 conferences.
The panel
Andrew Scadding, former Head of Broadcasting for the Conservative Party
Lance Price, ex-Director of Communications at the Labour Party
Mark Littlewood, former head of the Liberal Democrats' Press Office
In the chair: the BBC's David Cowling - Editor, Politics for Political Programmes, Analysis and Research.
When
Wednesday 14 September 2011
1.30pm - 2.30pm
Where
Room 5
6th Floor Suite
TV Centre
London
