“Strategic Lying”: Or How the Conservatives Dominated the Campaign News Agenda

Ivor Gaber; Caroline Fisher

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-81406-9_9

“Strategic Lying”: Or How the Conservatives Dominated the Campaign News Agenda

Ivor Gaber, Caroline Fisher

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Ivor Gaber and Caroline Fisher explore attempts by the Conservatives’ public relations operation, their ‘spin’ machine, to influence the campaign agenda. The piece focuses on the work of Boris Johnson’s influential adviser Dominic Cummings and others to shape the electoral narrative through use of what the authors call ‘strategic lying’. Such interventions are placed in context, along with reflections on the extent to which deception has come to define contemporary politics and how, in particular, this practice informed the 2019 campaign.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Political Communication in Britain
Subtitle of host publication	Campaigning, Media and Polling in the 2019 General Election
Editors	Dominic Wring, Roger Mortimer, Simon Atkinson
Place of Publication	Netherlands
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	9
Pages	103-114
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030814069
ISBN (Print)	9783030814052
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81406-9_9
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2021

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Political Communication in Britain: Campaigning, Media and Polling in the 2019 General Election. ed. / Dominic Wring; Roger Mortimer; Simon Atkinson. Netherlands: Springer, 2021. p. 103-114.

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