Evening Standard, on UK Politics, 14 November 2026
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Read the original article on standard.co.uk (opens in a new tab)The Evening Standard reports that the Conservatives agreed to pay the artist Stanley Chow after using his portrait of Andy Burnham on conference water bottles. It attributes the terms, a £1,000 copyright fee and a contribution to legal costs, to the Press Association's understanding, gives Mr Chow ample space in his own words, and keeps the party's mocking line as the party's own words. Nothing in it misleads.
“The Press Association understands the party agreed to pay a £1,000 copyright fee and a contribution to legal costs.”
The article gives the exact sum and says plainly that the terms rest on the Press Association's understanding. It does not state them as confirmed fact.
“asking an artist’s permission before using their work would be a good place to start.”
The artist whose work was taken gets a long quotation in his own words. His complaint is not reduced to a line set against the party's statement.
“what they described as the Prime Minister “ducking big decisions like cutting welfare to fund defence””
The party's attack line is attributed to a party source and kept in quotation marks. The paper does not adopt it as its own description of the Prime Minister.
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