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POPPING across the road for my Morning Star today I was struck by the front page of the Daily Mail on the rack, the words VOTE FARAGE screaming from the headline.
Was Britain’s biggest-selling daily openly endorsing the far-right rabble rouser? The whole headline read “Vote Farage, Get Them” and the picture showed Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner.
At first I assumed this was a declaration for Reform UK, interpreting “get them” in a “go get ’em” sense. Then I realised it was a warning (vote Farage and you’ll get them instead) and invited readers to an inside supplement on tactical voting to block Labour.
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