Introduction. Interest in investigating linguopragmatic aspects of expressive syntactic constructions functioning in political texts is connected with the peculiarities of realisation of their impact potential on the addressee in the process of communication. Purpose: the aim of the research is revealing linguopragmatic characteristics of syn-tactic carriers of expressiveness used as a means of the audience consciousness manipulation in the process of political communication. Materials and methods. The research is based on the analysis of political texts of Eng-lish prime-ministers’ speeches placed on the official Internet site of the UK government using methods of prag-mo-linguistic analysis, content- and discourse-analysis as well as linguistic methods of stylistic analysis and con-textological analysis. Results, discussion. It is typical of English political speech to use different syntactical expressive means intensifying emotionality and persuasiveness of utterances. Parenthetical constructions com-plexifying structural and semantic sentence organization are used for improving sentence content, validating truth conditions of utterances, expressing speaker’s evaluation thus identifying the communicative intention of the orator. Unique structure of cleft sentences isolating the most essential information and investing it with expressiveness attracts hearers holding the audience attention on it. Specific rhythm and dynamics of the political text is created by parallel constructions having similar syntactic structures and backed up by the lexical repetition that help the speaker impose his attitude to communicated information. The speaker’s intentional sentence parceling into communicatively significant parceled constructions allows the orator to manipulate the audience attention by emphasizing meaningful centers of the utterance that are marked by the appropriate intonation and pauses in oral speech. Conclusion. Expressive syntactic constructions enrich the meaning and emotional content of utterances in the political text. They are characterized by a high degree of impact potential which allows them to grab the addressee attention, exert emotional response and realise effective manipulation of the audience consciousness.