The future of air
transport has yet to register on the electoral radar, but support for the
aviation lobby is already paying dividends for at least one parliamentary candidate.
Esther McVey, Conservative candidate for Wirral West, recently worked with the local
Daily Post on its campaign to get a
flight path between London and Liverpool. Now, we
are told by a correspondent, Wirral News Group newspapers (owned by Trinity
Mirror) are giving disproportionate attention to local Conservatives. Sue
McCann, editor of Wirral News, is
reported to have rebuffed requests for her paper to shed its electoral bias by saying: “Not
until the general election is called.”
McVay’s own website, which makes no secret of her connections with the Daily Post, also proudly boasts of her TV career anchoring shows such as Ann Widdecombe’s Nothing But the Truth and BBC1’s The Heaven and Earth Show. But it is curiously silent about her past in tacky daytime TV chat show 5’s Company, where she shared a couch with ‘celebrity’ Fame Academy reject Nick Knowles and tap-dancing panto star Lionel Blair. OR
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