People are comparing the Sun’s Boris Johnson front page north and south of the border

John Plunkett. Updated July 26th, 2019

You’ve probably seen by now the Sun front page today from which the sun literally shines out of Boris Johnson’s face.

Fair and balanced reporting, as Fox News would say. And it prompted no end of ridicule, as you might also have seen.

I genuinely think that the official newspaper of a dictatorship would have been too embarrassed to print this pic.twitter.com/CPxpbKZ8H7

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) July 25, 2019

But what you might have missed was how different the paper’s front page was in Scotland compared to the one in England and Wales.

See if you can spot the difference.

Yep, think we’ve spotted it. It’s not unusual for a paper to change its front page depending on the audience its talking to but still … that must be the most extreme example we’ve seen yet.

At least the Sun north of the border reflects how the nation actually feels pic.twitter.com/zXPlx3daWI

— Baz 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@bananas_are_bad) 25 July 2019

So the lesson is so long as we sell papers we’re happy to say anything?

— Avi (@ProfessorAvi) 25 July 2019