Donald Roy<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.wales/@ApAlun" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ApAlun</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsie.social/@jhlibby" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jhlibby</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ChrisMayLA6</span></a></span> </p><p>Vested interests were much weaker then - in part because non-Labour politicians - most notably <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stanleybaldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stanleybaldwin</span></a> - had been prepared to take them on in previous decades and had succeeded in reducing their influence - particularly that of the 'press barons' such as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/beaverbrook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>beaverbrook</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rothermere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rothermere</span></a> . One has to wonder how far the 'cold feet' being shown currently over <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nondoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nondoms</span></a> reflects the continued influence of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rothermere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rothermere</span></a> through the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dailymail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dailymail</span></a> empire !</p>