Labour has created a fake website called www.torypartyconference.com and is using it to attack the Tories at their party conference in Manchester.
The spoof page, which The Hound can confirm is an official Labour party domain promoted by general secretary David Evans, has appeared at the top of Google search results as a paid advertisement, the content of which includes attacks related to tax hikes and allegedly dodgy contracts.
The who.is app shows that the domain name was bought on 14 September.
The site opens with an image of Boris Johnson and Michael Gove captioned: “Cons£rvative Party Conference Out For Ourselves.” Below that is a fake conference agenda, which includes Liz Truss “Dropping Britain’s commitments to the Paris Climate Agreement” and Priti Patel “Cutting police funding and letting antisocial behaviour soar”.
It uses Sir Keir Starmer’s attack lines. Boris Johnson is described on the home page as a “showman who has nothing left to show”, a line the Labour leader used during his keynote address in Brighton.
Labour seems to be fighting fire with fire with the Conservatives, who have a similar knack for digital dissemination. In 2019, Boris’s team bought a website called www.labourmanifesto.co.uk using it to attack Jeremy Corbyn during Labour’s manifesto launch.
Next time you hear a frontline politician from Labour or the Tories talk solemnly about the threat of disinformation and fake news, calling on Google and others to stamp it out, remember the parties are doing this stuff themselves.
