Editing Daily Express (section)

===Accusations of xenophobia and hate speech ===
In 2013, the paper launched a "crusade" against new [[European Union]] rules on migrants from Bulgaria and Romania, inviting readers to sign a petition against lifting restrictions on immigration.<ref>'Join our Crusade today ...', ''Daily Express'', page 4, 31 October 2013</ref><ref>'This time let us keep the floodgates closed', ''Daily Express'', page 14, 31 October 2013</ref> The front page on Thursday 31 October declared: "Britain is full and fed up. Today join your ''Daily Express'' Crusade to stop new flood of Romanian and Bulgarian migrants".<ref>'Britain is full up and fed up', ''Daily Express'', page 1, 31 October 2013</ref> The [[Aberystwyth University]] Student Union announced a ban on the sale of the paper.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/07/aberystwyth-daily-express_n_4234113.html |title=Aberystwyth University Student Union Bans The Daily Express |work=Huffington Post UK |access-date=18 May 2015 |date=7 November 2013 |archive-date=25 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625063008/http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/07/aberystwyth-daily-express_n_4234113.html |url-status=live }}</ref> This ban was overturned in March 2016, following a student vote.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/article.cfm?id=102936&headline=Students%20vote%20overwhemlingly%20to%20revoke%20ban%20on%20newspapers&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2016 |title=Students vote overwhemlingly to revoke ban on newspapers |work=Cambrian News |date=15 March 2016 |first=Chris |last=Betteley |location=Aberystwyth |access-date=23 May 2016 |archive-date=7 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160707141346/http://cambrian-news.co.uk/article.cfm?id=102936&headline=Students%20vote%20overwhemlingly%20to%20revoke%20ban%20on%20newspapers&sectionIs=News&searchyear=2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[UKIP]] Leader [[Nigel Farage]] declared that he had signed the "Crusade" petition, and urged others to do the same.<ref>{{cite news |author-link=Nigel Farage |last=Farage |first=Nigel |url=http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/440538/I-ve-signed-the-Express-petition-you-should-too-Remember-it-ll-be-Albanians-next |date=1 November 2013 |title=I've signed the Express petition – you should too! Remember, it'll be Albanians next... |work=Daily Express |location=London |access-date=18 May 2015 |archive-date=3 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150503064334/http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/440538/I-ve-signed-the-Express-petition-you-should-too-Remember-it-ll-be-Albanians-next |url-status=live }}</ref> Romanian politician [[Cătălin Ivan]] expressed "outrage" at the campaign.<ref>{{cite news |last=Evans |first=Max |url=http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/441065/Romanian-MEP-orders-Daily-Express-to-stop-our-campaign-to-halt-EU-migration |title=Romanian MEP orders Daily Express to 'stop' our campaign to halt EU migration |work=Daily Express |location=London |date=4 November 2013 |access-date=18 May 2015 |archive-date=1 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801112255/https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/441065/Romanian-MEP-orders-Daily-Express-to-stop-our-campaign-to-halt-EU-migration |url-status=live }}</ref>

In a statement released by The [[Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights]] (OHCHR) on 24 April 2015, the tabloid's name was mentioned in an accusation of producing [[hate speech]], initially referring to an article in [[The Sun (United Kingdom)|''The Sun'']]: "...To give just one glimpse of the scale of the problem, back in 2003 the ''Daily Express'' ran 22 negative front pages stories about asylum seekers and refugees in a single 31-day period" ... "..the High Commissioner noted that Article 20 of the [[International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights|ICCPR]], as well as elements relating to [[hate speech]] in the [[International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination]]* (both of which have been ratified by the UK, as well as by all other EU countries), were rooted in the desire to outlaw the type of anti-Semitic and other racially based hate speech used by the Nazi media during the 1930s".<ref>{{cite press release |author=UNOHCHR |url=http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=15885 |date=24 April 2015 |title=UN Human Rights Chief urges U.K. to tackle tabloid hate speech, after migrants were called "cockroaches" |publisher=United Nations |location=Geneva |access-date=25 June 2017 |archive-date=27 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170527081257/http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=15885 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Appearing in April 2018 before [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]]'s [[Home Affairs Select Committee]], which was investigating the treatment of minority groups in print media, ''Daily Express'' editor Gary Jones said that he would be looking to change the tone of the paper. Jones said that he had found past pages of the newspaper "downright offensive", adding that they made him feel "very uncomfortable" and contributed to an "[[Islamophobia in the United Kingdom|Islamophobic]] sentiment" in the media.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/apr/24/daily-express-editor-gary-jones-calls-its-front-pages-downright-offensive |title=Daily Express editor calls its front pages 'downright offensive' |first=Jim |last=Waterson |date=24 April 2018 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=24 April 2018 |archive-date=16 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240516225830/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/apr/24/daily-express-editor-gary-jones-calls-its-front-pages-downright-offensive |url-status=live }}</ref>