Was it the Sun wot won it?

Rupert Murdoch backs another election victor, but was it the Sun wot won it?

Pro-Tory, anti-Labour coverage by Sun, Times, Mail and Telegraph was a notable feature of campaign, though jury is out on its impact

In the1992 general election it was the Sun “wot won it” for John Major’s Conservatives. In 2015 such hubristic declarations seemed to hark from a different era, dating back to a time before the advent of social media and rolling news curbed the influence of the rightwing press.

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