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Sun and the Mail come out batting for PM in our ‘completely normal media ecosystem’

A bizarre pork pie chart and a front page splash about the prime minister's baby show Britain's bonkers press in all its glory.

Jack Peat by Jack Peat
2022-01-20 09:22
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The Sun and the Daily Mail newspapers were outliers this morning as they came out in defence of our beleaguered prime minister.

Boris Johnson has vowed to battle on after a senior Tory demanded “in the name of God, go” and a Conservative MP defected to Labour over allegations of rule-breaking parties in Downing Street.

Former Brexit secretary David Davis called for the PM’s resignation in a Commons intervention on Wednesday before later warning the party faces “dying a death of 1,000 cuts” if they do not act swiftly to oust him.

Minutes before Prime Minister’s Questions, Bury South MP Christian Wakeford dramatically switched sides, refusing to “defend the indefensible” over alleged breaches of Covid rules.

Today’s papers report the prime minister is continuing to doggedly “cling to power” despite facing a coup, a loss in the polls and an explicit direction from one ex-minister.

The Guardian, the Daily Mirror and Metro also quote Mr Davis as directing the PM: “In the name of God, go!”.

The latter also features Mr Johnson’s scrapping of Covid rules, with masks no longer mandatory and a return to the office in England.

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Guardian front page, Thursday 20 January 2022: 'In the name of God, go': Tory anger builds as PM clings on pic.twitter.com/PAgujtvkVc

— The Guardian (@guardian) January 19, 2022

Tomorrow's front page: In the name of God, go! #tomorrowspaperstoday https://t.co/ZOIyYFFkL7 pic.twitter.com/5ZlTsW5E6W

— The Mirror (@DailyMirror) January 19, 2022

Tomorrow's papers tonight 📰

RETURN TO THE OFFICE

🔴 WFH over
🔴 Mask rules eased
🔴 Self-isolating 'to end'#TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/25eEOTZs7L

— Metro (@MetroUK) January 19, 2022

But the Daily Mail and the Express took a different view of it, encouraging their readers to back the PM.

Tomorrow's front page: In the name of party unity, Go… and back PM #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/sh2u7FWc8R

— Daily Express (@Daily_Express) January 19, 2022

Thursday's @DailyMailUK #MailFrontPages pic.twitter.com/tAoTYvrmN8

— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) January 19, 2022

And The Sun splashed ‘Battling PM crust ahead’ with a pork pie chart in what Owen Jones sarcastically described as being an example of our “completely normal media ecosystem”.

In an example of our completely normal media ecosystem, here's The Sun – whose deputy editor is Boris Johnson's former head of comms – coming to the government's rescue, with a front page splash written by Carrie Johnson's ex-boyfriend. pic.twitter.com/1GBwyDzSx5

— Owen Jones 🌹 (@OwenJones84) January 20, 2022

Related: Rachel Reeves says losing Labour members ‘is a good thing’ as party shakes Corbynite past

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