Political parties don’t use Twitter anywhere near as much as Facebook. But at least someone is talking about this problem.
- Lecturer of Communication, University of Liverpool
The British Election Study results have called the notion of a 2017 ‘youthquake’ into question. But that doesn’t mean parties will abandon social media campaigning any time soon.
MPs come in for a lot of abuse online. But who are the haters and is the media partly to blame for the way it reports politics?
The past year has seen more parliamentarians take the ‘Chiltern Hundreds’ than at any time since the 1970s.
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