Press Awards: Scoop Of The Year!

The Mail on Sunday’s exclusive into former Co-Op bank chief, Paul Flowers, saw the paper awarded the Scoop of the Year Award alongside being crowned the News Team of the Year.

It was described by the judges as a consistently great story-breaker that continues to produce quality journalism.

Press Awards.

How does this scuzzy, scummy act of paid entrapment constitute a 'scoop' of any relevance?

'The Mail on Sunday and its sister paper have printed a lot of things about me. I remember dear old Michael Foot once describing the Mail group as the Forger’s Gazette.

'I find the Mail on Sunday and its pseudo-fascist far right tendencies which make Valdimir Putin look like a bleeding heart liberal utterly abhorrent.

'The reality is a considerable amount of what the Mail on Sunday has printed has been pure and utter fiction.'

Paul Flowers in last week's Newsnight interview.

Watch it here.