Sentence examples for told lobby from inspiring English sources
11.34am: Downing Street just told lobby journalists that the government's position on the extradition of Gary McKinnon has not changed.
In an excited email last week, Ben Russell, the Independent's political correspondent, told lobby members: 'Traditional fish'n'chip lunches return to Moncrieff's cafe every Friday from tomorrow - with mushy peas.' Pass the ketchup.
Might I suggest, your lordships, that after the disclosures of this week in the alleged "lords for hire" scandal, you might care to put your own house in order before you start telling lobby correspondents how to do their jobs.
Minutes from the firearms reference industry group obtained by Guardian Australia show Keenan told firearms lobby groups in a private meeting in September 2015 that the government wanted to cut "red tape" from gun regulation.
That politician will then go on Newsnight and say this policy is the best thing since sliced bread, and the journalist, who was told on lobby terms, is going to have to attribute it to 'a senior Downing Street source'.
And indeed, it was extraordinary that as early as March 1989 Paul Channon, then secretary of state for trade and industry and the minister responsible, should have told six lobby journalists in the Garrick Club that he was confident that arrests would be made within a matter of weeks, if not days.
A pregnant woman in the lobby told me she was there trying to educate herself.
This is what the prime minister's spokesman told the regular lobby briefing.
Both the police and the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), a powerful lobby, told the owner his building was unsafe but he ignored them and the factories stayed open.
"If the point is to add pressure and blackmail in the negotiations, it is inadmissible," Laurence Parisot, president of the Medef employers' lobby, told RTL television on Thursday.
At schools, teachers gave them pamphlets promoting "Putin's Plan" and told them to lobby their parents.
