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Mirror mocks Kelvin MacKenzie's right move

Kelvin MacKenzie
Kelvin MacKenzie ... fed up with his Mirror image? Photograph: Rex Features

The poignancy of Kelvin MacKenzie's totemic departure from the Sun – to join the Daily Mail – has not been lost on the tabloid's red-top rival, the Daily Mirror. The Mirror marks MacKenzie's change of allegiance as a "wild lurch to the right". The paper devotes a distinctly unflattering 70 words on the former Sun editor, making no small mention of MacKenzie's Merseyside reputation. "Newspaper columnist Kelvin MacKenzie – the man who smeared Liverpool fans after the Hillsborough disaster – is deserting the Sun for the even more rightwing Daily Mail." One wonders what MacKenzie's first Mail tirade might be about.

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