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Distraction

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First episode dateOctober 31, 2003
Final episode dateJune 11, 2004
Presented by Jimmy Carr
Networks Channel 4
Number of episodes 16
GenresGame Show
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Date of Upd.
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The Papers: Fracking ban and England rugby heroes

Feb 16,2020 7:45 am

There is a consensus in the papers that Nigel Farage 's warning that his Brexit Party will stand in every seat unless Boris Johnson scraps his Brexit deal is not good news for the Conservatives.

The Financial Times.

thinks it risks splitting the Leave vote, making the Prime Minister 's electoral challenge more difficult.

says the Tories have gone to war with Mr Farage after he threatened to wreck their election hopes.

In its editorial, The Paper feels he has overreached - and urges Mr Farage and his hardliners to dilute their ideological purity and embrace pragmatism.

The takes up the theme, saying the Brexit Party leader has won his place in history, but his Time Is up.

The Sun , because his stance is far more likely to prevent Mr Johnson winning the majority which is vital to delivering Brexit.

The Daily Mirror accuses him of indulging in a cheap that could spell trouble for both Labour and the Conservatives.

But, Mr Farage defends his approach, saying that if his party is the only one willing to stand up for a proper Brexit, then so be it.

The Daily Telegraph focuses on The General election campaign, saying the Tories are preparing to launch.

Elsewhere, the columnist and former Conservative MP, Matthew Parris , uses his weekly column in The Times to announce that.

He says he finds himself unwilling to support a leader who - he says - is A Stranger to honesty or principle, and who surfs a foolish populist wave for the sake of ambition alone.

The Time has arrived, he argues, to give up hoping for a return to Tory sanity, saying although he is not a Liberal Democrat, he will unhesitatingly vote for them on 12 December to "defeat Tory zealotry over Europe".

After Twitter's decision to ban all paid for political advertising, the and requires further investigation.

With The General election under way here and the US Presidential election a year away, the FT concludes the stakes are exceptionally high.

The Guardian expresses concern that Facebook's power over what users see. The Paper suggests that forcing Facebook to reveal where parties are spending campaign cash and enforcing constituency spending limits would be a start.

The papers also focus on the government's announcement that fracking will be banned.

Sees the decision as a U-turn and a huge victory for green campaigners.

The Times says.

The Guardian believes.

And finally, there's much excitement about the Rugby World Cup final.

The Daily Mirror suggests England, who meet South Africa on Saturday, stand.

The Times suggests an England victory at a Time when it needs a Distraction .

has a 16-page pull out. But, with The Game due to start at 09:00 GMT, The Paper 's readers might be pushed to read it all In Time .



Source of news: bbc.com

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