ROBERT HARDMAN: Decision to ban farmers' anti-inheritance tax adverts on the tube shows how Labour's petty tribalists censor dissent
Daily MailA last-minute entry, surely, for the 2024 Two-Tier Keir Awards, celebrating the best of double standards in public life. Having seen the assisted dying lobby, the animal rights lobby, the human rights lobby, the business lobby and others slap their messages across the most influential advertising billboards in Britain – those at Westminster’s Tube station – the farming lobby were all set to do the same. Few things in recent memory have been as ‘politically controversial’ as the proposal to legalise assisted dying – yet, last month, campaigners for legal reform were allowed to cover Westminster Tube station with emotional arguments. Clearly, there is no election going on and the ads do not ‘promote a party political cause’, any more than those assisted dying or animal rights ads did. The animal rights lobby, the human rights lobby, the business lobby have all had political adverts featured on the tube As for the ‘substantial reason’, the NFU’s ad agency has been told that the ads ‘would like to be displayed at Westminster’.
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