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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Alex Hern, Marjan Kalanaki and Carmen Aguilar García

Tories pursuing ‘ostrich strategy’ on Facebook campaign ads

Rishi Sunak campaigning
The party’s campaigning appears not yet to have caught up with the reality of its position in the polls. Photograph: Alastair Grant/AFP/Getty Images

The Conservative party is pursuing an “ostrich strategy” on Facebook, spending almost all of its ad budget since the beginning of the year in constituencies that were once marginal but are now looking more like surefire losses, Guardian analysis shows.

The strategy is known within the party as the “80/20” approach, in which it focuses all its spending on the 80 seats it came closest to losing in 2019 and the 20 seats it came closest to winning.

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