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Branding Brexit: the comms strategy failures that shaped the EU referendum

on Jun 29, 2016 | 0 comments

By Saman Mansourpour

Nine minutes before Boris Johnson publicly declared which side he was backing in Britain’s referendum on membership of the European Union, he texted David Cameron to let him know: ‘Dave, I’m backing Brexit. Soz.’ Or words to that effect.

This was the part of the process of preparation for the announcement, apparently taken after ‘enormous heartache’. Does it sound like a course of action followed by a decisive and committed campaign spokesperson? Not exactly.

Irrespective of your political view, the communications strategies (or lack thereof) around the EU Referendum have been a litany of failures.

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Source: The Drum