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GUTTER press baron Rupert Murdoch predicted the success of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership campaign yesterday in an unexpected hint of “support.”
He said that the current favourite would be announced as the winner on September 12 because the other three candidates — Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall — did not seem to stand for anything.
“Corbyn increasingly likely Labor (sic) winner. Seems only candidate who believes anything, right or wrong,” he wrote on Twitter.
Five days previously, he had tweeted that Corbyn was a “very likely win” but implied that he was “unelectable,” saying that Tory Prime Minister David Cameron “does not deserve such luck.”
However, Mr Murdoch may not be surprised to hear that Mr Corbyn does not think very highly of him and his newspapers, particularly The Sun — which supported the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
He wrote in the Star in 2011 that following “meglomaniac” Mr Murdoch’s takeover of the newspaper in the 1960s, it had become a “low-grade abusive tabloid whose populism and abuse of individuals was unprecedented in its ferocity and bile.”
