Jeremy Corbyn defied his critics by coming across well during last night’s debate and Labour is continuing to enjoy a revival in the polls. But the Labour leader is still facing a tough time in the press:
Take a look in the small print of Labour’s plan for government, says the Daily Mail, and there’s a nasty shock waiting for you. The ‘Land Value Tax’ – which has been ‘highly praised by Jeremy Corbyn’ could ‘add more than £2,500 to the annual council tax bill’, according to the Tories. And it’s clear, says the Mail, that LVT would hit those with gardens the hardest. More worryingly though, the proposal ‘would inevitably cause widespread hardship to help fund a massive expansion of the State’. Don’t be fooled, says the Mail: this stuff is ‘straight out of a Marxist textbook’. But should we be surprised? After all, ‘what can we expect of a leader who has embraced every hard-Left cause for 50 years?’. The Mail concludes its leader with a ‘chilling thought’: ‘ten days from now, this rabble could be running – and ruining – Britain’.
Meanwhile, the other newspapers turn their targets on Angela Merkel after the German leader suggested over the weekend that Europe could no longer rely on its allies in the wake of Trump’s election and Brexit.
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