Senior ‘Telegraph’ writer resigns over ‘fraudulent’ HSBC coverage

‘Peter Oborne, the Daily Telegraph’s chief political commentator, has resigned from the paper, accusing it of a “fraud on its readers” over its coverage of HSBC.

In a blistering attack on the paper’s management and owners, Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay, Oborne claimed the paper deliberately suppressed stories about the banking group in order to keep its valuable advertising account.

He said it was a “most sinister development” at the paper, where he claimed the traditional distinction between the advertising and editorial department had “collapsed”.’