80 years ago today the Daily Worker was banned. Are there lessons for us today?
The 18-month prohibition was the longest ban imposed on any newspaper by government order in British history. Home Secretary Herbert Morrison – grandfather of New Labour grandee Peter Mandelson – justified the ban on the grounds that the Daily Worker was undermining the war effort. When challenged in Parliament over this, he was unable to point to any specific evidence – instead defending the ban as a preventive measure based on the likelihood of it doing so. Left-wing MPs including Nye Bevan protested at the use of wartime emergency powers to ban our paper, while in the trade union m...
Source: morningstaronline.co.uk