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Latest update: 07/04/2010
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A battle between ‘hope and fear’, ‘steel and rust’ and ‘granite and plastic’
The British election campaign is already shaping up as a battle of simplistic dichotomies with how Brown and Cameron are marketed being key to who’ll win. The British papers lead with the beginning of the election campaign. Also a love story with a twist between a Pakistani and an Indian as well as the search for a French hero in New York… WEDNESDAY, 7th APRIL, 2010
The Daily Telegraph’s Andrew Porter calls this general election a battle between “hope” and “fear”. The right-leaning daily is casting the Conservatives in a more positive light as the party that represents optimism and change while Labour’s strategy is one based on fear, says the Telegraph. “Don’t risk the recovery,” is the essence of Gordon Brown’s message.
The Murdoch-owned tabloid, The Sun, has an exclusive interview with Tory leader David Cameron. The paper is supporting the Tories in this election and its influence is not to be sniffed at. The paper is the most widely read in the UK and was seen as very influential in previous Labour victories before switching sides. In today’s paper, David Cameron calls the choice facing voters one between “steel” and “rust”, this in response to Labour’s Peter Mandelson’s jibe where he compared Cameron to plastic in comparison to Brown’s “granite”.
The Guardian’s Marina Hyde describes the scene yesterday as the “Brownmobile” chugging into Buckingham Palace to ask for the dissolution of Parliament.
“Only the British can combine the raw materials of a Queen, a prime minister, an election and a 775-room palace and from them create an occasion with all the pomp-soaked drama of a man clocking in and out of a car park.
“This glorious reverse alchemy was at play outside Buckingham Palace yesterday, as Gordon Brown made his historic – and historically uneventful – journey to see her Majesty.”
Other stories in today’s international papers:
Times of India: “Sania knew Shoaib for 5 years”
Times of India: “There's something about Paki men”
New York Daily News: “Dad David Anderson seek mystery man who helped save daughter Bridget Sheridan”
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