{"id":42292,"date":"2025-08-26T03:06:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/politicians-risk-ignoring-many-voters-by-not-being-on-tiktok-tory-mp-warns-16\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T03:06:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:06:37","slug":"politicians-risk-ignoring-many-voters-by-not-being-on-tiktok-tory-mp-warns-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/politicians-risk-ignoring-many-voters-by-not-being-on-tiktok-tory-mp-warns-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians risk ignoring many voters by not being on TikTok, Tory MP warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018You\u2019ve got to be where the electorate are,\u2019 says Luke Evans, the sixth-most followed UK politician on the platform<\/p>\n<p>Politicians are at risk of ignoring a large chunk of the electorate because of their reluctance to communicate on TikTok, according to a Tory MP who has one of the biggest followings of any UK politician on the social media platform.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Evans, who is the sixth-most followed UK politician on TikTok, said his colleagues were missing out on engaging particularly with young voters because of security concerns and a lack of knowledge about the platform.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/aug\/25\/uk-politicians-risk-ignoring-voters-tiktok-tory-mp-luke-evans\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018You\u2019ve got to be where the electorate are,\u2019 says Luke Evans, the sixth-most followed UK politician on the platform Politicians are at risk of ignoring a large chunk of the electorate because of their reluctance to communicate on TikTok, according to a Tory MP who has one of the biggest followings of any UK politician [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}