<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">We have updated our Election Guidelines for Radio Stations, (available here <a href="http://www.theradiopeople.co.uk/election.html" class="">http://www.theradiopeople.co.uk/election.html</a> ) which includes two important changes since the General Election of 2015:<br class=""><br class="">1. Ofcom has now removed the concept of ‘larger’ parties from their rules and replaced it with a more relaxed requirement on broadcasters to take election-related editorial decisions and decisions about coverage by reference to evidence of past electoral support and/or current support. Ofcom has set out factors, in the latest version of the Ofcom Broadcasting Code (Section Six), which all broadcasters should consider in weighing different types of evidence when making decisions in election party coverage <br class=""><br class="">2. The revised rules to Section Five and Section Six of the Code which came into effect on Saturday 22 March 2017. So if you haven’t done so in the last month, it might be worth having a quick read to refresh your ‘dos’ and ‘don’ts'<br class=""><br class=""></body></html>