Conservative Party launches iPhone app

By Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor Published: 1:35PM GMT 01 March 2010

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The Conservative Party has launched an iPhone app, finish with the own swingometer, that gives short sum of the partys policies.

Aimed essentially at activists, the free General Election app additionally offers the trickery to call friends to seek votes await and afterwards inform their choosing by casting votes goal behind to the executive party.

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The move responds, in part, to electorate concerns that the Conservative Party does not have transparent policies on specific issues, and aims to give campaigners the possibility to discuss it doubters specific celebration lines on a range of topics. These embody the vital themes of health, counterclaim and preparation but additionally item areas such as culture, media and competition and alternative areas that get less mainstream media attention.

Integration with amicable networks Twitter and Facebook serve underlines the purpose the celebration is giving to digital campaigning for the 2010 election. Jeremy Hunt MP, the Conservative orator for online campaigning, claimed that his is "the usually Party that has entirely embraced new record in the run up to the General Election".

The apps swingometer allows users to lean their iPhones to show how most Conservative MPs would be inaugurated with a pitch to the celebration of up to twenty per cent.

The Labour Party had additionally voiced that it would launch an iPhone app of the own in early February; the Party says it is right away due "imminently".