“rock bottom” Rishi Sunak’s administration and it's press media7 Jun 2023 20:59
Prince Harry railed against Britain’s government and press on Tuesday in another day of bombshell allegations at his phone-hacking case against the publisher of the Daily Mirror.
Abandoning the convention that royals do not comment on politics, the Duke of Sussex said both Rishi Sunak’s administration and the media were at “rock bottom”, and that it was harming British democracy.
Harry, the first royal to testify in court since 1891, claimed the government was “scared” of alienating British newspapers “because position is power”.
In a scathing broadside. he accused journalists of having “blood” staining their “typing fingers”.
It prompted some Tory MPs to call for Harry to renounce his title, arguing he had broken the “golden rule” of royals not getting involved in politics.
Harry alleges that 140 articles published between 1996 and 2010 contained information Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) gathered using unlawful methods.
But lawyers for MGN suggested the royal’s claims of phone hacking are “in the realms of total speculation”.
Independant