Its all over the media now.

Nothing wrong with making people prepared for pain with tax but why virtually say income tax is going up when you know there is more data to come from the OBR?

A government with a massive majority obsessed with short term polls.

As Alastair Campbell said, get a grip!

Thats exactly what Alastair Campbell has always said and is why he left in 2003

campaign — where the Leave campaign complained loudly about the amount of cash sent to Brussels. While the U.K. is open to paying for access to EU programs, London says it wants value for money. Previous negotiations over the U.K.'s rejoining the Horizon science research

In other words, US politicians and pressure groups can pipe the party line directly into millions of households unchallenged, in a way that is much harder in the UK.

This has a huge impact both on trust and cohesion, and on whether politicians feel the need to appeal to moderates or just partisans.

Here’s the same data, but with trust broken down by political views (circles are trust among people on the left, +s the right).

It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.

Trump bigly mad he's starting to collapse in approval polls so he's trying to deflect attention away, IMO.

Their 'apology' needs to be given exactly the same prominence as their fake story.

This is the problem with the likes of the Telegraph and Mail, they can make up any load of nonsense and at worst, they can 'apologise' in small fonts at the bottom of page 29