He became the " Mail "'s lobby correspondent, then in 1962 became Chief Reporter with the " Daily Sketch ", and in 1969 was promoted to Executive Editor.
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He was a lobby correspondent at Westminster for over twenty years, and is the former Political Editor of Independent Television News ( 1975 81 ) and " The Times " newspaper ( 1981 86 ).
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Bevins started at the " Liverpool Post " in 1967, moved to London as its lobby correspondent in 1970, and then joined the political staff of the " Sunday Express " in 1973.
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Dudeney left the " Leicester Pioneer " in 1911 when he became Labour sub-editor of the Paris Peace Conference after World War I . In 1921 Dudeney became Parliamentary Gallery and Lobby correspondent at the " Daily Sketch ", a position he held until 1944 when he retired from staff journalism.
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Iain Macleod said of him that Rab loves being a politician among academics and an academic among politicians; that is why neither breed of man likes him all that much . Lobby correspondents ( journalists who report on political affairs, including non-attributable information leaked to them ) were advised never to believe anything Rab Butler told them, but never to ignore anything he told them either.
