lobby correspondent

noun

A journalist who reports on political and parliamentary affairs, especially through unattributed sources from politicians or other government officials.

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Meanings

nounlobby correspondent (plural lobby correspondents)

plural lobby correspondents

  1. UKA journalist who reports on political and parliamentary affairs, especially through unattributed sources from politicians or other government officials.
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    Another paper reported that the GMB's decision to cut back the cash it gives to the Labour Party was all down to Gordon Brown. The evidence for this was that a lobby correspondent saw the GMB boss, Kevin Curran, talking to Douglas Henderson MP, a Brown supporter, on the Commons terrace bar. The hack probably didn’t even realise that Doug was a GMB member.

    2004 July 19, Charlie Whelan, New Statesman, Don't believe it: "Blair declares war – on Gordon Brown", page 26

Origin

So called from journalists who were given access to the private members' lobby in the House of Commons, later becoming a more generic term for all such journalists in Parliament.

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APA

lobby correspondent. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lobby%20correspondent

MLA

“lobby correspondent.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lobby%20correspondent. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lobby correspondent,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lobby%20correspondent.

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