Alliance for Lobbying Transparency meeting

Public fringe event at theLabour Party conference 2008: Will Lobbyists Come Clean? A debate on ethics and transparency in lobbying - 7.00pm Monday 22 September 2008

On the panel will be: John Grogan MP, Prof David Miller, SpinWatch, a member of the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency, Jon McLeod, Chairman, UK Public Affairs at Weber Shandwick, Stephen Kingston, Editor of the Salford Star, an award-winning, grassroots magazine, Chair: Nigel Pivaro, formerly played Terry Duckworth in Coronation Street, now a journalist.

John Tocher Room, The Mechanics Institute, 103 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 6DD 

Free wine

For more information, please contact Tamasin Cave on 07973 424 015, or tamasin@spinwatch.org

The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency (www.lobbyingtransparency.org) is a coalition of civil society groups concerned about the growing influence of professional lobbying on Government decision-making and life in the UK.

Current members of ALT are: Action Aid; Campaign Against Arms Trade; Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom; Corporate Watch; enoughsenough.org; Friends of the Earth; Greenpeace; National Union of Journalists; Pesticides Action Network; Platform; SPEAK Network; SpinWatch; Unlock Democracy; War on Want; and World Development Movement.