«TONY Benn is a liar. Not an accidental liar. Not a slip-of-the tongue liar. Not a liar in the speech. But a cool, calculated, deliberate, with-malice-aforethought liar.' That was the Daily Mirror on 6 November last year. It could have Telegraph, Mail or Express but no, it was an editorial in the Mirror, the newspaper which in full page advertisement in following month claimed:
'The Daily Mirror îs a newspaper of the people. The only daily paper which supports democratic "socialism. which has supported the Labour Party at every General Election since the War: excitement of an emotional been Daily Tribune the The only King about the Daily Mirror yesterday! What Tony Benn said on radio estimation, a Labour right-wing leader. Coup keep him in politics' other Labour Party those governments has been dominated by the right wing of the party. When, in the Mirror's government steers left, the newspaper is quick to go on the offensive. In April 1968 the Mirror launched a campaign for the removal of Wilson in favour of a more At the same time the Mirror's chief, Cecil King, was plotting with Roy Jenkins, Denis Healey, and Richard Marsh for a right-wing coup within the Parliamentary Labour Party; King arranged for the Mirror to pay Marsh an annual fee of £500, not for any journalistic services, but, recorded King in his diary, 'to The key to the Mirror's attitude to the Labour Party is that there are, in effect, (wo Parliamentary Labour Party, has always been controlled by the right wing and acts independently of the that consisting