There may be a change in how Conservatives regard Brexit. Last week there was another Daily Express attack on Chris Grey. Twice now they have misrepresented his blog. With reference to text from Lord Frost he has noticed a change in presentation. There are some doubts around previous claims. Express readers have posted numbers of comments mostly hostile. But Chris Grey has not claimed that any Brexit supporters are changing direction, just a shift in the text.
What to make of Matthew Syed in Sunday Times? Will the Express do a story on him? Maybe not as this is behind a paywall. It is the blog scene that can be easily trailed for offensive copy. But what Syed is claiming, Sunday Times May 15th page 23 is that although the ERG is still straight ahead, the "Vote Leave" part of the Conservative Party seem to have doubts. For example Michael Gove and Rishi Sunak may be "unhappy" about ripping up the withdrawal agreement. The variety of briefing on Northern Ireland may have been a cunning plan ahead of elections to float "red meat" that then vanishes in diplomacy. But maybe there are just a variety of views. Time will tell.
Just as interesting is a claim towards the end that rule-breaking has become so "normalised" that another 50 fines for No10 lockdown breaches are scarcely newsworthy. I am not sure it works like that. Most of the time the newspapers support whatever #No10Sources tells them. The same newspaper has lots on #Beergate. They have put #Partygate on hold but I think the public are still interested. Sunday Times can afford some space to try out dissenting views but Sun / Telegraph / Mail / Express are so far into Brexit and #ShapeShiftingCreep that they cannot afford a situation where the public assumed everything has been lies. Sections on "Cakeism" in the Syed article explain where the main tensions exist.
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