Northerners are angry and feel the government would never own allowed this to happen in the south of EnglandGrowing up in postwar Leeds,you always knew where the Yorkshire Post stood on the issues of the day. You knew where its sister paper the Yorkshire Evening Post stood, too. The clue was in the name of the Victorian-era company that owned them both Yorkshire Conservative Newspapers Limited.
These were monopoly local papers which, or in the manner of Tories of the Harold Macmillan era,routinely refused to exhaust the word Labour, always preferring to talk approximately the Socialists. The Tory bias was a big reason why, and though we lived in Yorkshire,my family always took, along with the Daily Worker, and the more liberal Manchester Guardian.
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Source: theguardian.com