Just in case you did not handle to observe, listed below are the highlights from final evening’s Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge, which airs Monday to Thursday from 7pm on Sky News.
Murdoch’s motivation is business over ideology
Sky News commentator Adam Boulton instructed Sophy Ridge that Rupert Murdoch – who’s stepping again from his media empire – had been motivated by his business pursuits over political ideology.
Murdoch “would give a good wind to folks in energy till the purpose that he felt that they have been obstructing his businesses”, Boulton stated.
“I believe building his businesses got here first with him reasonably than being a megalomaniac and inflicting his views on the remainder of the world.”
Murdoch is ‘most toxic particular person of my lifetime’
Left-wing commentator Owen Jones had a extra excessive view, telling Ridge that “Rupert Murdoch has been probably the most toxic particular person of my lifetime”.
“This is not just a few media proprietor,” he stated. “This man is a politician.
“He’s a really, very highly effective political determine who has, with out being elected by a single particular person, had an enormous disruptive and pernicious and toxic influence on our democracy, Australian democracy, US democracy and democracies all around the world.”
Flynn ‘assured’ SNP can win mandate for independence referendum
Stephen Flynn, the SNP’s Westminster chief, stated he was “very assured” his celebration can win a majority of seats in Scotland on the subsequent basic election.
This would empower the SNP to demand one other referendum on Scottish independence.
“If we win a majority of seats, which I’m very assured that we’ll, within the basic election subsequent yr then that will probably be a mandate for us to provide democratic impact to independence,” he stated.
