Is Mr C really Mr K or only Sunny D? Should we blame marketing for political spin?

Increasingly, political parties market themselves by appealing to the emotions rather than on their policies.

Is Mr C really Mr K or only Sunny D? Should we blame marketing for political spin?

Jeremy Bullmore

For quite a long time, 15 years or so, I've had a nagging, amorphous suspicion at the back of my mind. I've chosen not to take it out and examine it more carefully in case I didn't much fancy what I found. Better to leave it there, I thought. If it stays in the dark it may shrivel up and go away. But while still amorphous, it's continued to nag – so I finally decided to confront it.

The suspicion is...

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