The influence of the Conservative party in Britain over large swathes of the press is well known, but the partisan reporting of the most popular newspapers in the country over the last week is unprecedented to an observer from my generation.
The last time such a consummate, unashamed declaration of political allegiance coupled with an attack on a member of the opposing party must have been during
the 1992 campaign. Neil Kinnock, the then leader of the Labour party, was victim to slurs of a similar magnitude.
