Charities faced merciless scrutiny over telephone scandals and are now trusted more than the government. Shame the Conservatives haven’t taken note
It’s said that rules are there to be broken – and a Channel 4 News investigation alleges that the Conservative party really took that to heart in the recent snap election, not to mention the 2015 general election.
The investigation makes several disturbing claims about the Conservative party’s approach to telephone marketing: paid canvassing, purporting to be from a non-existent market research company, and breaking data protection and privacy laws by calling people registered with the telephone preference service. The Conservative party said the call centre was conducting market research on its behalf, and was not canvassing for votes. The call centre confirmed it was employed by the party, but denied canvassing on its behalf.
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