After them FT, Economist and Sunday Times It’s time for a tabloid to abandon conservatives.
It is the Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch, which announced its support for the Labour Party and its leader Keir Starmer, on the eve of the country’s parliamentary elections and while the polls were taking place. show overwhelming labor leadership.
Fourteen chaotic years
“It’s time for a new coach and we don’t mean Southgate”, is the Sun’s headline, while in an article published in its online edition, it adds:
“The insurmountable problem they (the Conservatives) face is that over 14 often chaotic years they have become a divided mob, more interested in fighting themselves than in governing the country.”
He adds: “There remain many concerns for Labour… But by taking his party back to the centre of British politics for the first time since the Tony Blair was Prime Minister, Sir Kiir earned the right to take control.’
The conservatives got two newspapers
The newspaper follows the example of Financial Times It is Sunday, who officially supported the opposition Labour Party.
Among other newspapers, the Daily Mirror It is Guardian they also support the Labour Party, while the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph the conservatives. The weekly magazine The Economist also supports Labor.
The Sun is one of Britain’s best-selling newspapers and boasts that those it chooses to support usually win.
The tabloid, part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp media empire, boasted in 1992 that “It was the Sun that won”, claiming its support had persuaded 10 million readers to vote for John Major’s Conservative in an unexpected election victory.
She switched her support to Labour before Blair led the party to the first of three consecutive general election victories in 1997.
In 2009, the Sun broke with the Labour Party after a decade of support and announced that it was siding with David Cameron’s Conservatives. It has supported the Conservatives ever since.