Paper Monitor
13:06 UK time, Wednesday, 28 September 2011
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Let's have a warm Paper Monitor welcome for Rory Weal, the 16-year-old star of this year's Labour Party Conference. Hands together now.
Why? Turn to page seven of the Daily Mail and you will see that he's well and truly arrived - with his . You can't miss the piece, it's under the headline: "The child star of the Labour conference and the truth behind his 'life of poverty'."
Rory wowed the audience on Monday with a speech in which he spoke of the trauma of losing his family home. Which one, asks the Mail.
According to the paper his family owned many homes that were valued at an estimated £2.25m before they were repossessed. Now they live in a £300,000 house in Kent. The paper says:
"The schoolboy tugged at delegates' heartstrings with a tale of his home being repossessed and the family having 'nothing, no money, no savings', and only the benefits system to fall back on. But Labour leader Ed Miliband may be surprised to know he was not so hard-up after all."
As if that wasn't bad enough he now goes to a grammar school, after leaving his private school because his parents could no longer afford the fees. As the Mail kindly points out:
"The Labour Party has traditionally opposed all selective schools, including grammar schools, because it believes they are elitist."
It says Rory is now "placed under the protection of two Labour minders" who are fending off the media and ensuring he doesn't go "off message".
Ahh, just 48-hours into his political career and Rory is probably already feeling like a weary veteran.
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