HYPOCRISY AVOIDANCE & EFFECTIVE MESSAGING: KEY FACTORS TO MITIGATING THE THREAT OF A POST-CORONAVIRUS SURGE IN UNRULY PASSENGER INCIDENTS

摘要

International readers may not be familiar with the name Dominic Cummings. Those of you in the UK would have had to be living in isolation not to know who he is (oh, sorry, I forgot that is what we are all supposed to have been doing)! Cummings is the Prime Minister's muse. Without Cummings, it would appear, Boris Johnson is lost. The architect of the Brexit Vote Leave offensive, the fixer of Johnson's crusade to become leader of the Conservative Party and the draughtsman of the Conservatives subsequent successful election campaign, he has an impressive ability to read the mood of the electorate and win. He is despised by the opposition parties and indeed by many of those in government, in part because he appears untouchable, unaccountable and now, so it seems, above the law.