The Sun: a class apart from the Telegraph?

Some surprise, and not a little anger, at the Daily Telegraph over the Sun's reaction to its David Laws scoop. Other papers dutifully followed up the story about the rental payments made to Laws's partner at the taxpayer's expense, but the tabloid's political editor, Tom Newton Dunn, lambasted the Telegraph in a column for causing Laws "excruciating embarrassment and pain" in "an attempt to boost its flagging sales". Newton Dunn, readers may recall, is the man who reportedly told a group of fellow journalists during the election campaign: "It is my job to see that Cameron fucking well gets into Downing Street." He was also, like Cameron, educated at Eton, while his father, a former Tory MEP who defected to the, wait for it, Lib Dems in 2000, is Bill Newton Dunn, who attended Marlborough College. Little wonder, perhaps, that Newton Dunn the younger's attack on the "snooty Telegraph" drew ironic smiles from those at the paper who can still recall the days when the Sun was a title produced by – as well as read by – members of the toiling masses.