Columnist resigns from UK newspaper over HSBC coverage
February 18, 2015  19:09
One of Britain's most prolific columnists has resigned as the chief political commentator for The Daily Telegraph, alleging that the newspaper buckled under management pressure to block coverage of the HSBC tax scandal. 

Peter Oborne accused the leading daily of "fraud on the readers" by deliberately suppressing stories about the banking giant and called for an independent review of the newspaper's guidelines over its coverage of a series of revelations surrounding HSBC's Swiss banking arm in the last few days.  

"There are great issues here. They go to the heart of our democracy, and can no longer be ignored," he said in an article on the Open Democracy website.
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