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Queen complains over press report she ’wants UK to leave EU’
by Jane Whyatt
Her Majesty the Queen has made a formal complaint to Britain’s press regulator IPSO about a story in the Sun newspaper that claims she is anti-EU and appears under the headline ’QUEEN BACKS BREXIT’.
Here is the article in question:
Screenshot from article that ran in The Sun, British publication, 8 March, 2016. (Photo: http://www.thesun.co.uk)
In it, reporter Tom Newton Dunn refers to remarks said to have been made in 2011 at Windsor Castle to the then leader of the Liberal Democrat party Nick Clegg and to an unnamed parliamentary source.
Brexit is a term composed out of the words “Britain”…