Wednesday 1st November, 2017

Today’s UK headlines, summarised and analysed.

Good morning,

Brief overview: A victim has come forward to accuse senior Labour officials of suggesting she not report her rape if she wants to have a successful career. The dossier of Tory MPs that have been caught up in the sex scandal has now swelled to include over 40 names. A copy of the unverified dossier circulated around Twitter yesterday.

Outside of the headlines: A terrorist killed eight people in Manhattan last night after driving a truck down a cycle path. The world’s largest exchange operator, CME Group, said it would introduce bitcoin futures later this year.

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Cartoon of the day:

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The Daily Mail

Owned by: Daily Mail and General Trust, owned by Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere

Editor: Paul Dacre

Political leaning: Right / far right

Daily circulation: circa 1,490,000 (10 million views per month from personal computer and 20 million from mobiles)

Brexit stance: Pro-Brexit

Today’s leading headline: Labour tried to cover up my rape

Having declined to grant the MP sex scandal a front-page headline yesterday, the Mail today splashes on the shocking revelation that a Labour activist was raped and then told not to talk about it by senior party officials. Bex Bailey claims she was attacked and raped when she was 19 at a Labour event in 2011, and was told by senior party members that if she reported she would damage her political career.

The paper writes that this accusation “switches the focus on to Labour” despite admitting two paragraphs later that a “list of more than 40 Tory MPs, including six Cabinet ministers” was circulating on the internet.

Afterthought: Jeremy Corbyn has launched an investigation into the accusation, which will have huge ramifications for all those found to have silenced Miss Bailey. He went on to condemn Westminster’s ‘warped and degrading culture’. Miss Bailey says her perpetrator was a senior party official who was not an MP.