Celebrities help in political election broadcasts

Some political parties have been using famous faces to help sell their message in TV election broadcasts, in preference to their own frontbench stars.

Susana Mendonça looked at how to get the political message across, where polling shows the TV broadcasts can help sway one in eight voters.

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