Lionel Laurent, Columnist

The Other Loser In Britain's Election

Failure to secure a May victory highlights the decline of an industry.
Photographer: BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images
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It's a bad day to be a U.K. press baron. Fleet Street's finest had lined up to endorse Theresa May ahead of an election that backfired badly for her.

Rupert Murdoch's tabloid Sun, credited for swinging elections in the past, had called on Brits to keep Jeremy Corbyn's "sinister Marxist gang" from power. Given the result could also jeopardize his effort to take over Sky PlcBloomberg Terminal, there's little wonder he was said to have done this: