UK election is full of dirty tricks and political clicks

British Conservative party Health Secretary Matt Hancock and his party colleague the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Nicky Morgan, in London as they launch their party's digital election campaign poster highlighting what they see as Corbyn's indecision. Lawmakers have called for sweeping reforms to protect democracy in the digital age, but the government failed to act in time for the upcoming Dec 12 General Election, as political parties are mining social media cyberspace for votes. — AP

LONDON: Britain is proving a lawless landscape for political mudslingers mining cyberspace for votes in an election that could determine the UK's future relationship with the European Union.

Two years after Britain found itself at the epicenter of a global scandal over the misuse of Facebook data by political campaigns and a year after lawmakers called for sweeping reforms to protect democracy in the digital age, the country's biggest political parties are bombarding voters with misleading social media messages after the government failed to act.