The rightwing media aim to save Britain from Labour. They’re also desperate to save themselves

t first glance, it seemed same old, same old. Britain’s print media backed their usual teams when Rishi Sunak announced an election this week. Yet, behind the scenes, much has changed, not least the fact that the party’s traditional supporters on the right are distracted by another battle: one for the soul of the Conservative party and also their own futures.

All newspapers tend to reflect the views of their owners as much as their readers, which makes the position of the Telegraph all the more unusual. The paper faces this election effectively ownerless after being offered as collateral for the enormous debts run up by its erstwhile owners, the Barclay family. RedBird IMI,, was blocked by the government from taking it over but has not had time to sell it.

If any piece highlighted this confluence of influence it was one launched just a few hours after the election announcement by Robin Aitken, a former BBC journalist turned critic and UnHerd writer. Headlined “GB News is going from strength to strength – and the media elite is terrified”,the “old, stale media consensus that censors proper debate about important topics” such as “climate change”.

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