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Media lying about public service taxation, Communist Party warns

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.

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