'Labour's mass complaint to the press regulator Ipso over this summer's press coverage of Jeremy Corbyn's visit to a Tunisian cemetery in 2014 has been dropped, according to individuals at the newspapers involved.
The party made the unprecedented decision to complain against most national newspapers, complaining that the Sun, the Times, the Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the Express and Metro had misrepresented the event, which saw the Labour leader attend a ceremony commemorating Palestinians who died in the country.
The party had complained that the articles suggested he was commemorating members of the Black September terrorist group or those who carried out the 1972 Munich massacre, which Corbyn denied. Any Ipso investigation could have forced the party to disclose extra details and supporting evidence, while also forcing the press regulator to rule on a definitive series of events.
It is not clear why the complaint will not be going further, although one possibility is that Labour simply allowed the complain to time out. An Ipso spokesperson declined to comment.'
That's from The Guardian here
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2018/oct/01/conservative-conference-hammond-says-johnson-will-never-be-pm-politics-live but not a word on the Labour Party's propaganda arm, the BBC.
The most interesting line is this:
'Any Ipso investigation could have forced the party to disclose extra details and supporting evidence...'
Now why might the Labour Party be reluctant to go down that line?
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