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Tim Shipman

TALKING POLITICS

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How Social Media Has Changed Electioneering

I was keen to present a very balanced portrait of the Labour party. I think even people around Jeremy Corbyn who aren't necessarily fans of my newspaper or my proprietor felt that I gave them a pretty fair shake. Once you've done one, people come to you a little bit for the second one and once people saw them doing OK and selling reasonably well they want to have their say. You write in the book about how social media has changed electioneering. Has it changed your job in the sense that politicians obviously have this other outlet to get their message across? Compared to 10, 15 years ago, the public has more direct access to them in some ways. Is it harder to ferret

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