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The Sun newspaper backs Labour in blow to Rishi Sunak (www.standard.co.uk)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The Sun newspaper has backed Labour at the General Election providing a huge blow to Rishi Sunak’s chances.

The tabloid has said “It’s time for a new manager” hours before Britain is set to go to the polls.

The paper also famously backed Tony Blair’s Labour Party when he won a landslide victory in 1997, switching sides after more than 20 years of unswerving support for the Tory party. It has previously backed Tory candidates for the past 15 years helping David Cameron and Theresa May enter Downing Street.

The Rupert Murdoch-owned paper wrote: It’s time for change. The insurmountable problem faced by the (Conservatives) is that - over the course of 14 often chaotic years - they have become a divided rabble, more interested in fighting themselves than running the country.

“By the time Rishi Sunak moved into No10, Britain had had five Prime Ministers in just 12 years. In 2022 alone, there were four Home Secretaries, four Chancellors, and five Education Secretaries.

“All this upheaval, backstabbing and mayhem came at a price.”

It added: "There are still plenty of concerns about Labour ... But, by dragging his party back to the centre ground of British politics for the first time since Tony Blair was in No. 10, Sir Keir has won the right to take charge."

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (3 children)

So late in the day and given the impressive poll lead, it just feels opportunistic. I bet they'll try and claim "it was The Sun wot won it!"

The interesting thing is that Starmer hasn't been courting Murdoch, as Blair did. His plan seems to have been keep your head down and don't give the right wing press an attack surface.

[–] Womble 12 points 4 months ago

Starmer tried to court Murdoch hard, but apparently Murdoch holds a grudge that it was Starmer as DPP who prosecuted the phone hacking crimes and got Andy Coulson convicted and has refused to have anything to do with him.

[–] NickwithaC 8 points 4 months ago

The Sun and opportunism go hand in hand.