Professor Steven Fielding on Labour's new attack adverts
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The release of a provocative and factually dubious Labour advert on Twitter attacking Rishi Sunak caused shockwaves - but it’s just a sign of things to come. Professor Steven Fielding, who has written extensively about Labour, explains why the party has gone for a punchier approach. He says it makes sense that they’re trying to implicate Sunak in “all the bad things” the Tories have done since 2010. He explains: “Labour wants to neutralise one of the few assets that the Conservative Party appears to have, which is Rishi Sunak, the new kid on the block, and to say, ‘he's not, he's just the same old Tories’.”