Letters to the Editor: UK media fails to highlight the gaslighting of public by Tories

There has been a policy of blatant lying by the British government but the British media generally turns a blind eye to this

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson: In the run-up to the general election of 2019 an independent survey of Facebook ads found ‘88% of Tory ads misleading compared to 7% for Labour’.

Fergus Finlay was asking how the government of the UK could still be popular — Fergus Finlay: How is Britain still backing Boris Johnson? (Irish Examiner, October 19).

There has been a policy of blatant lying by the British government; it could be described as gaslighting.