{"id":15005,"date":"2024-07-02T09:37:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T07:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/02\/could-the-whatsapp-election-hurt-labour-at-the-polls\/"},"modified":"2024-07-02T09:37:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T07:37:19","slug":"could-the-whatsapp-election-hurt-labour-at-the-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/02\/could-the-whatsapp-election-hurt-labour-at-the-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Could the WhatsApp election hurt Labour at the polls?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In some constituencies \u2013 often with large Muslim populations \u2013 a parallel viral campaign focuses on emotive issues such as Gaza that rarely feature in national coverage<\/p>\n<p>When Keir Starmer was interviewed for the Sun\u2019s YouTube live stream last week, only about 10,000 people tuned in to watch him pledge to get tough on illegal immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Under pressure to prove he would speed up deportations, the Labour leader singled out one example in particular: \u201cAt the moment people coming from countries like Bangladesh are not being removed because they\u2019re not being processed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/jul\/02\/whatsapp-election-labour-gaza-viral-campaign\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fa90265c8dae27dd034651fad517f409e1c74d5f\/0_78_5500_3302\/master\/5500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4705647df45530f9e53d6b3a3066fdf6\" title=\"Could the WhatsApp election hurt Labour at the polls?\" \/>In some constituencies \u2013 often with large Muslim populations \u2013 a parallel viral campaign focuses on emotive issues such as Gaza that rarely feature in national coverage<br \/>\nWhen Keir Starmer was interviewed for the Sun\u2019s YouTube live stream last week, only about 10,000 people tuned in to watch him pledge to get tough on illegal immigration.<br \/>\nUnder pressure to prove he would speed up deportations, the Labour leader singled out one example in particular: \u201cAt the moment people coming from countries like Bangladesh are not being removed because they\u2019re not being processed.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some constituencies \u2013 often with large Muslim populations \u2013 a parallel viral campaign focuses on emotive issues such as Gaza that rarely feature in national coverage When Keir Starmer was interviewed for the Sun\u2019s YouTube live stream last week, only about 10,000 people tuned in to watch him pledge to get tough on illegal &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/02\/could-the-whatsapp-election-hurt-labour-at-the-polls\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Could the WhatsApp election hurt Labour at the polls?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15005"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}