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People visited realestate.com.au 2.5 times more than its nearest competitor. The Digital Real Estate Services segment contributed nearly 40% of News Corp’s profi tability. The Sun more than doubled its global monthly unique online visitors to a record 85 million. THE ELECTION 2017 EXIT POLL Friday,Sun June 9, 2017 FOR A GREATER BRITAIN 50p thesun.co.uk VERDICT lTories ‘fail LABOUR 266 on majority’ 34 lShe’s set to SNP 34 lose 17 seats 22 lCoalition LIB DEM At The Australian, readership grew to 14 of chaos fear 5 nearly half a million weekday readers. By TOM NEWTON DUNN, Political Editor BRITAIN was heading for a hung parliament last night after an exit poll UKIP Friday March 17 2017 | thetimes.co.uk | No 72173 Only 80p to subscribers £1.40 showed Theresa May losing her majority. TORIES The Tories were projected to lose 17 MPs overnight, putting them on 314. That would leave them 12 short of overall control — meaning her snap Unbeatable guide election gamble had ended in disaster. INSIDE Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour were set to 314 0Best places gain 34 seats to put them on 266. BRICKS& to the Cheltenham The SNP would lose 22 seats, leaving 17 1 them on 34. The Lib Dems would win MORTAR five, taking them up to 14. 20 to downsize Gold Cup 12-page pullout Taxpayers fund extremism 6Government adverts pay for hate videos and rape apologists 6Google summoned to explain as big brands pull campaigns Semites and banned hate preachers entering Britain last year after repeat- ed its YouTube advertising “pending deliver the high quality of service that times investigation were receiving payouts from publicly edly calling homosexuals “sodomites, reassurances” from Google. Commer- government demands on behalf of the Alexi Mostrous Head of Investigations subsidised adverts on the internet com- queers and faggots”, has YouTube cial brands also removed adverts, with taxpayer.” pany’s video platform. videos with adverts for Channel 4, Visit Channel 4 saying that it was not satis- Sainsbury’s and Argos, whose Google is to be summoned before the David Duke, the American white Scotland, the Financial Conduct fied that the platform was “a safe adverts also appeared on videos posted government to explain why taxpayers nationalist, Michael Savage, a homo- Authority (FCA), Argos, Honda, environment”. on behalf of the nationalist organisa- are unwittingly funding extremists phobic “shock-jock”, and Steven Sandals, The Guardian and Sainsbury’s. “Google is responsible for ensuring tion the Polish Defence League, said it through advertising, The Times can Anderson,apastorwhopraisedthekill- A YouTube poster typically earns that the high standards applied to gov- was “unacceptable that Google is reveal. ing of 49 people in a gay nightclub, all about $7.60 for every 1,000 times that ernment advertising are adhered to allowing our ads to be placed alongside The Cabinet Office joined some of have videos variously carrying adver- an advert is seen. More than 40 videos and that adverts do not appear along- these videos on YouTube”. Transport the world’s largest brands last night in tising from the Home Office, the Royal posted by Duke, a former imperial side inappropriate content,” a govern- for London, the FCA, The Guardian and pulling millions of pounds in marketing Navy, the Royal Air Force, Transport wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, have been ment spokeswoman said. “Google has L’Oréal also pulled commercials. EXIT POLL HUNG PARLIAMENT SHOCK:from Yo PAGESuTube after an in2,vestig 3,ation 4,Fo r5,London 6, and 7, the BB8,C. 9, 10 viewed in excess of 100,000 times. been summoned for discussions at the “It is completely unacceptable that MAYHEMshowed that rape apologists, anti- Mr Anderson, who was banned from Last night the government suspend- Cabinet Office to explain how it will Continued on page 6, col4 No new independence vote STEVE BACK for Scotland before Brexit Subscriptions to The Times Francis Elliott Political Editor chance to vote on their future before Lindsay McIntosh Britain left the European Union. Ms Scottish Political Editor Sturgeon raised the stakes further by refusing to rule out a consultative refer- Theresa May steps up the pressure on endum if she failed to get authorisation and The Sunday Times reached Nicola Sturgeon today, accusing the from the prime minister. SNP leader of forcing a “fundamentally With experts warning that relations unfair” independence referendum that between the British and Scottish gov- would damage Brexit negotiations. ernments were heading for crisis, Mrs In an article for The Times, the prime May will use a speech in Cardiff today minister toughens her stance against to insist that she is determined to starting talks over a second independ- govern “in the interests of the whole an all-time high. ence vote before spring 2019 — the country” and to defend the “precious, timetable set out by Ms Sturgeon in a precious Union”. Writing in The Times, she warns of the danger of a second Scottish inde- pendence referendum over the next two years. “To do so now, while all our energies should be directed towards the negotiations with Europe, would make Game of cat it more difficult to get the right deal for Scotland and the right deal for the UK and mouse as a whole. It is not something to which any responsible UK government could reasonably agree,” Mrs May writes. continues Theresa May said that a referendum “The SNP is trying to force the UK in 2019 would be unfair on voters government to agree to something that in Downing is fundamentally unfair to the Scottish surprise announcement this week. The people. It wants to ask them to make a Street prime minister had already appealed to crucial decision without the necessary Ms Sturgeon to “step back” from plans information. They would not know to tableademandforasecondvote next what the new partnership with the EU week, making clear that it would be would look like, or what the alternative rejected. “Now is not the time,” she said of an independent Scotland would be. It last night. would simply not be fair.” In response Scotland’s first minister Legislation that authorises the start accused Mrs May of “returning to the of EU exit talks received royal assent bad old days of Margaret Thatcher”, yesterday. Mrs May will today launch a saying that it would be a “democratic “Plan for Britain” — a summary of her outrage” if Scots were denied the Continued on page 2, col3 If a ruthless streak is needed at No 10 no one taught Larry, the chief mouser. 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