TV AND radio news channels are presenting right-wing beliefs over public service taxation and migration effect on poverty as fact, the Communist Party (CP) has warned.

CP general secretary Robert Griffiths condemned Britain’s mainstream political parties and broadcasting media for a “craven capitulation” to the Tory-supporting tabloid press.

At the party’s political committee on Tuesday evening, he said: “Right-wing contentions are now presented in the mass media as unquestioned truths.

“It now goes almost without challenge to portray taxation and public spending as purely negative factors in a party’s manifesto, to be costed and condemned except when it comes to yet more spending on so-called ‘defence’ as Labour, the Tories and Reform UK outbid each other in their spending pledges for militarism and war.”

He said it has similarly become part of a largely unchallenged consensus that immigration is a contributory factor to Britain’s chronic problems of poverty, NHS underfunding and the lack of affordable housing.