Coulson had to go: now the ethical dimension of political communication must be restored

Abstract

The resignation of David Cameron’s Director of Communications came as a surprise to few, and questions are now being asked as to whether or not he should ever been hired given the allegations that have clouded his tenure. Bart Cammaerts finds that murky ethical boundaries in political communications are nothing new, and that this may have to change if the public is to have any trust in the government’s ‘spin doctors’