Palace Complains About the Sun
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The paper, not the big ball of gas in the sky.
In case you missed The Sun’s best headline this week, here’s a quick rundown.
That’s all you need to know.
The Sun has denied claims it straight up lied that the Queen said in an interview with Nick Clegg that the EU was going in the wrong direction.
Subsequently, the Palace has issued a complaint toward the paper, in relation to Clause One of the Editors’ Code of Practice.
The clause explicitly says that “the Press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted information or images, including headlines not supported by the text”.
Yeah, because the Sun’s never done that…
The Sun’s political editor, Tom Newton Dunn, has written that the paper would not have reported the Queen’s remarks “had they not come from two different and impeccably placed sources”. It’s important to note that the Sun doesn’t actually quote these sources in the article, and the sources only claimed to have witnessed a “bust-up” between the Queen and Nick Clegg in 2011.
In the article, it does mention from this unnamed source that the Queen spoke with “venom and emotion”.
Professor Vernon Bogdanor, expert at King’s College London, told the Press Association that for the Queen to break her traditional impartiality would be “absurd”.
“I’m very dubious. The Queen speaks and acts on the advice of ministers,” Prof Bogdanor said. “What she said on the Scottish referendum was that people should think carefully before they vote – and that’s a very sensible comment, I would have thought.”