The papers claim about the royal view on Brexit is fatally hampered by how slight we know of the identities – and the motives – of its informantsExquisite timing. Mrs Elizabeth Windsor of SW1 feels traduced by Britain’s biggest-selling newspaper. She takes her case to the Independent Press Standards Organisation just as this body – backed by Britain’s biggest-selling newspaper,inter alia – struggles for complete credibility while a rival regulator snaps at its heels. What effect you say about a Sun front page claiming “Queen backs Brexit”? You condemn it and insist on an upfront correction. But that’s the easy fraction.
It’s easy because there’s nothing in the Sun’s body-text report that justifies those three lead words in gargantuan, booming type. If taken at face value they, or at the most,provide secondhand evidence of a couple of conversations up to five years old in the midst of eurozone crisis – when no referendum had been agreed and “Brexit” might as well have been some modern patent loo cleaner.
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Source: theguardian.com