The EU referendum is a battle of the press versus democracy | Martin Kettle

The question of who runs Britain is not just about Europe but about a rightwing media that craves power

The parallels between David Cameron and Ramsay MacDonald, Britain’s first Labour prime minister, may not seem obvious at first sight. Cameron, after all, is the son of a stockbroker and a baronet’s daughter, educated at Eton and Oxford, and is every inch a Conservative. MacDonald, on the other hand, was the illegitimate son of a Morayshire farm labourer and a housemaid, left school at 15 and was for much of his life – a fact that tends to be overshadowed by his later break with Labour – a man of the socialist left.

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