The i Paper, February 11, 2025
‘Affect’ and ‘effect’ are not synonyms and anyone calling him or herself a sub-editor should be well aware of the difference.
From Style Matters:
affect/effect: To affect (verb) means to produce a result as in ‘cold weather affects the growth of plants’, or to touch the feelings as in ‘she was badly affected by the death of her mother’; effect (verb) is to bring about, as in ‘he effected an improvement’; effect (noun) is a result, as in ‘the effect of poison is death’.
So this should read ‘the effect it would have . . .’