Thinking about the EU elections as a way to find out about the referendum. What happened? Maybe some story will be recalled. The characters from the previous plot still mostly exist and have similar roles. So maybe some clues.
See previous post for "Fantasy Brexit" as promised, to be delivered by ERG some time later. Also "Brexit in Name Only" the version negotiated by May.
Mail and Express sometimes support May in a patriotic sort of way. Telegraph and Sun more likely to talk of betrayal or going back to Brussels to tell them about changes required, or just crashing out.
My guess is that many people recognise the fantasy element but it helps to sell newspapers, also works well with members of the Conservative Party. So can help future leadership bid unless caught out in government trying to do actual policy.
Complicated during EU elections by Brexit Party. Can it be managed just to help shifts inside the Conservatives without actually wrecking it?
Meanwhile the readers for newspapers are fewer and older, more settled in their ways. Less budget for reporting. So complex explanations about the latest wheeze for damage containment, aka Brexit in name only or how this gets through UK politics / EU negotiations could be a boring story too expensive to cover. Loud opinion might be more probable. Time will tell.
Johnson for Telegraph, Gove for Murdoch both probable staying in Conservatives. Step forward Anne Widdecombe for the Daily Express.
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