βI wouldnβt put it past himβ: questions over whether Murdochβs UK titles will back Starmer
Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail have endorsed Sunak but messaging is more nuanced in Murdochβs Sun and Times
In the build up to the 1992 election the Sunβs attacks on the Labour leader, Neil Kinnock, who had been expected to win, were relentless. On polling day, its front page featured a mock up of Kinnock as a lightbulb with the headline: βIf Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights.β
When he lost, its front-page headline declared: βItβs the Sun wot won it.β Later, the Sunβs owner, Rupert Murdoch, told the Leveson inquiry the headline was βtasteless and wrongβ, and that he had given the editor at the time, Kelvin Mackenzie, βa hell of a bollockingβ. He added: βWe donβt have that sort of power.β
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