The FT Endorses Cameron

Four consecutive days, four press endorsements, and not for the first time, today's is from a publication which backed Blair previously. Indeed, it is from a paper which, I read at Conservative Home, backed Labour at the last four elections.

As the Economist on Friday, the Times on Saturday, the Sunday Times yesterday, now the Financial Times has come out for Cameron's Conservatives. They argue that the Conservatives

"would create the best environment for enterprise and wealth creation."

and

"Britain needs a stable and legitimate government to navigate its fiscal crisis and punch its weight abroad. On balance, the Conservative party best fits the bill."

You have to be registered to access the Financial Times online, but if those who are registered or willing to do so can read the full article here.

Comments

Tim said…
I think you may have missed the point - Rupert Murdoch is endorsing the Conservatives. In case you hadn't noticed, he is a foreign press baron attempting (quite disgracefully in my opinion) to influence the outcome of a British general election. Before you say it, I was equally unhappy about him endorsing Labour.
Chris Whiteside said…
Tim, as I said in an earlier post, the fact of the endorsements is more useful as a sign of the way their readers are going, but if you look at the arguments they give to explain the change in position, some of them are quite telling.

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