{"id":33053,"date":"2018-03-19T14:30:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T13:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/03\/19\/tories-spent-18-5m-on-disastrous-2017-general-election-campaign\/"},"modified":"2018-03-19T14:30:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T13:30:58","slug":"tories-spent-18-5m-on-disastrous-2017-general-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=33053","title":{"rendered":"Tories spent \u00a318.5m on disastrous 2017 general election campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electoral Commission data shows party spent \u00a32.1m on Facebook advertising aloneThe Conservatives spent more than \u00a318.5m while losing their majority at last year\u2019s general election, against \u00a311m of spending by Labour and \u00a36.8m by the Liberal Democrats, newly released figures have shown.The Electoral Commission data, which covers the 12 months prior to the election on 8 June, also showed the increasing role of social media in campaigning, with the Conservatives spending about \u00a32.1m on Facebook advertising alone. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/19\/electoral-commission-conservatives-spent-lost-majority-2017-election\" target=\"_blank\">Tories spent \u00a318.5m on disastrous 2017 general election campaign<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electoral Commission data shows party spent \u00a32.1m on Facebook advertising aloneThe Conservatives spent more than \u00a318.5m while losing their majority at last year\u2019s general election, against \u00a311m of spending by Labour and \u00a36.8m by the Liberal Democrats, newly released figures have shown.The Electoral Commission data, which covers the 12 months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}