'Do not ignore': the political fundraising emails 'littering' your inbox

British voters are being bombarded with emailed pleas for donations and support in the run-up to the next election

Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak
With an election looming fundraising messages from parties to their supporters are becoming increasingly more desperate
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 British politics has become "hooked" on "begging emails" with "threatening subject lines", according to experts.

With an election "looming", said Politico's John Johnson, fundraising messages from parties to their supporters "litter Britain's inboxes". But the growing number of digital pleas could "turn genuine supporters off".

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.