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The Tories' very own rag misleading the public? Surely not.
Peter Oborne has quit The Daily Telegraph, accusing the newspaper of committing fraud on its readers over its coverage (or lack therein) of the HSBC scandal.
In a scathing editorial published on the Open Democracy website, the newspaper's former chief political commentator accuses The Daily Telegraph management of burying reports on the black hole in the HSBC accounts, which he infers was at the behest of the advertising department.
Oborne notes how a story about HSBC closing the accounts of British Muslims, which he submitted last year, failed to appear on the newspaper's website. When he inquired as to why, he says he was "fobbed off with excuses", after which he was told there "was a legal problem".
"When I asked the legal department, the lawyers were unaware of any difficulty. When I pushed the point, an executive took me aside and said that 'there is a bit of an issue with HSBC'," he writes.
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