The spy claims by some papers have given the Labour leader to accomplish some stinging points about how free the UK press really isThe spying accusations by several newspapers against Jeremy Corbyn are laughable. They amount to a smear reminiscent of the fraudulent claims made by the Sunday Times in 1995 that Michael Foot was a KGB agent. Playing the red card has long been a tactic employed by editors of the section of the press that is antipathetic to Labour. Rightly,Corbyn has dismissed the pages of nudge-nudge wink-wink in the Daily Mail, the Sun, and Daily Express and Daily Telegraph as “ridiculous”,arguing that the detailing of such fantasies “shows just how worried the media bosses are by the prospect of a Labour government”. Related: Jeremy Corbyn rejects spy 'smears' and takes on press critics Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk