Shock! Horror! Keir Starmer has appointed an ex-editor of The Sun as civil servant overlord, responsible for overseeing government communications. What is the Labour leader thinking? How can he?
Inevitably, out come all the liberal-left, anti-tabloid, anti-Sun tropes. David Dinsmore’s hiring is a gross act of betrayal, they say. Does the prime minister not have any regard for Leveson, the victims of phone hacking, the people of Liverpool traduced by the paper’s coverage of Hillsborough? And what about Dinsmore’s 2016 conviction for printing a picture of a teenage victim of sexual assault, which did not conceal her identity?
