Daily Mail

Di charity in Biden blunder

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SHE embraced Aids sufferers and campaigned to ban landmines, but Princess Diana never strayed into the most controvers­ial arena of all — party politics. Yet the Diana Award, the charity establishe­d in her name to empower young people, has, I can disclose, just blundered into the most contentiou­s and fraught election of the year — the American presidenti­al battle. ‘Young people could be a decisive force in the 2020 U.S. election,’ it announced on its official Twitter account — above an image of Barack Obama, with a hoarding in the background proclaimin­g: ‘Obama . . . Biden’. This provoked an anguished complaint that the charity was ‘using Princess Diana’s name to meddle in the U.S. election’. The Diana Award acknowledg­es that the image was ‘an error’. ‘It has missed the mark on our usual standards, for which we apologise,’ says a spokesman.

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