Andy Burnham to address the nation with major speech as he risks huge party backlash
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The Daily Star reports Andy Burnham's planned EU speech. In its own voice it states that cabinet ministers and MPs have privately warned against the reset, gives no source for this, and says the alarmed figures have not spoken publicly. It also calls David Cameron a "pig-lover" in a news report.
Asserts unsourced claims as fact
Minor
“Several cabinet ministers and backbench MPs representing Leave-voting seats in the Midlands and the North have privately warned”
Why this matters
The Daily Star reports private warnings from unnamed cabinet ministers and MPs as established fact. It gives no source and no indication of how it knows.
The impression it gives
That cabinet ministers have privately warned Burnham, as a verified fact.
The context
No source is given for these private warnings. The article itself says in S5 that none of the alarmed figures has come forward publicly.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“none of them have come forward publicly”
Uses a loaded word
Minor
“pig-lover”
Why this matters
The Daily Star attaches the unexplained insult "pig-lover" to David Cameron's name in its own voice.
The impression it gives
That Cameron's view can be dismissed through a personal jibe.
The context
Nothing in the article connects the insult to the EU speech or to Cameron's argument. It is a slur in a news report.