Newspaper’s embarrassing slip more than short article describing Labour’s John Stonehouse as a Tory MP 

The still left-wing Observer newspaper has come underneath fireplace for mistakenly describing a disgraced Labour politician as a Tory MP.

John Stonehouse, the 1970s minister who experimented with to bogus his individual demise and is the subject matter of a new ITV drama, formed the foundation of a column this weekend linking his scandals to difficulties in today’s Conservative Social gathering.

Catherine Bennett’s short article was on The Guardian’s web-site below a headline stating that he had ‘paved the way for today’s sleazy Tory MPs’. 

It claimed his ‘rackety daily life and faked death’ now seem ‘almost quaint when compared with the brazenness of associates of his occasion today’ and was also in print. But the MP was in Harold Wilson’s Labour authorities.

Catherine Bennett’s short article was on The Guardian’s web-site below a headline stating that John Stonehouse experienced ‘paved the way for today’s sleazy Tory MPs’

Amid a flurry of corrections on social media, the column was amended online to say Stonehouse paved the way for all today’s ‘sleazy members’.

The scandal-strike politician is portrayed by Matthew Macfadyen in ITV’s dramatization of the story, The True Stonehouse, which documents his drop from grace. 

Gossip columnist for The Spectator magazine, Steerpike, said: ‘You could have thought that, even though looking at the series, statements about Soviet contacts and prostitutes in Czechoslovakia may well have specified Bennett and her Observer colleagues pause for assumed. 

John Stonehouse, the 1970s minister who tried to fake his personal demise is the topic of a new ITV drama (Pictured: Matthew Macfadyen in ITV’s dramatization of the tale, The Actual Stonehouse)

Obviously not.’ A correction at the base of the on-line model of Catherine Bennett’s write-up states: ‘The headline and subheading of this posting have been amended on January 7, 2023 since in an early model they prompt John Stonehouse was a Tory MP.

‘The columnist did not explain Stonehouse as a Tory, nor misunderstand his bash affiliation, but the detail that he was a Labour politician has also been added to avoid any feasible confusion.’