Ed Miliband’s decision to pose with the Sun’s World Cup edition went down predictably badly among Labour MPs. The backlash was led by those from Merseyside constituencies, who have long boycotted the paper over its reporting of the Hillsborough disaster (into which a public inquest is ongoing). Steve Rotheram, the MP for Liverpool Walton, and others met with Miliband, who was reportedly “left in no doubt whatsoever about what they thought” and responded by saying he was “very, very sorry”.
A furious Joe Anderson, the mayor of Liverpool, declared: “Like everybody in this city I am really hurt and offended by Ed Milliband’s support for The S*n ‘newspaper’ today. Such clear support for that publication at any time would be wrong but at such a sensitive time is deeply shocking.”
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