Proud to have led on coverage and ruffled feathers
FROM agenda-setting exclusives to leaving egg on faces with the Mirror Chicken, we exposed Tory lies and instability throughout the election campaign.
We also predicted how Jeremy Corbyn’s plans would strike a chord with voters fed up with austerity and Theresa May’s empty pledges.
On May 9, the Mirror exposed a Tory plot to repeal the ban on fox hunting if they won by a landslide. We published a leaked email from Conservative Lord Mancroft, urging hunt masters to “mobilise supporters” and campaign for pro-hunting Tories in marginal seats. He wrote: “A majority of 50 or more would give us a real opportunity for repeal of the Hunting Act.”
Animal rights campaigners praised us for revealing the plot.
Two days later, the Mirror also obtained a leaked version of Labour’s draft manifesto. It worked in the party’s favour, with PLUCKY Chicken on trail voters giving the thumbs-up to a string of radical policies. We also revealed Mrs May planned to strip 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance by making it means tested.
The day the UK went to the polls, we exposed the PM’s countless lies – from the seven times she promised not to call a snap election to saying that the “humanitarian crisis” as the NHS went into meltdown over winter was “not unusual”.
And no election would be complete without the Mirror Chicken, who regularly highlighted the PM’s fowl play as she ran scared of TV debates.