ANDREW SPARROW and ADAM GABBATT
LABOUR ACCUSED the Sun newspaper yesterday of exploiting the grief of a mother whose son had been killed in Afghanistan in its reporting of her anger over a letter of condolence the prime minister sent in which he misspelt the soldier’s name.
Jacqui Janes, the mother of grenadier guardsman Jamie Janes, who was killed on October 5th, received the letter days after her son’s death. But, according to the Sun , Mrs Janes had read only the first few lines before she “threw it across the room in disgust”.
Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, said that although Gordon Brown’s handwriting was “not great”, people should understand that the row was being orchestrated by a paper that was actively campaigning against Labour.
