Editing Daily Mail (section)

==Editorial stance==
As a [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]] tabloid,<ref name="Gaber-2014">{{cite journal|first1=Ivor|last1=Gaber|title=The 'Othering' of 'Red Ed', or How the Daily Mail 'Framed' the British Labour Leader|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-923X.12114|journal=The Political Quarterly|date=2014|issn=1467-923X|pages=471–479|volume=85|issue=4|doi=10.1111/1467-923X.12114|access-date=12 November 2020|archive-date=12 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112185326/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-923X.12114|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="Stoegner-2016">{{cite journal|first1=Karin|last1=Stoegner|first2=Ruth|last2=Wodak|title='The man who hated Britain' – the discursive construction of 'national unity' in the Daily Mail|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2015.1103764|journal=Critical Discourse Studies|date=14 March 2016|issn=1740-5904|pages=193–209|volume=13|issue=2|doi=10.1080/17405904.2015.1103764|s2cid=147469921|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="Meyer-2010">{{cite journal|first1=Anneke|last1=Meyer|title=Too Drunk To Say No|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/14680770903457071|journal=Feminist Media Studies|date=1 March 2010|issn=1468-0777|pages=19–34|volume=10|issue=1|doi=10.1080/14680770903457071|s2cid=142036919|access-date=12 November 2020|archive-date=17 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217075456/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14680770903457071|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref> the ''Mail'' is traditionally a supporter of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]]. It has endorsed the party in every UK general election since 1945, with the one exception of the [[October 1974 United Kingdom general election|October 1974 UK general election]], where it endorsed a Liberal and Conservative coalition.<ref>{{cite news |date= 4 May 2010 |title= Newspaper support in UK general elections |url= https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/may/04/general-election-newspaper-support |work= The Guardian |access-date= 22 November 2021 |archive-date= 1 August 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130801141949/http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/may/04/general-election-newspaper-support |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Martinson |first= Jane |date= 6 May 2015 |title= The Sun serves Ed Miliband a last helping of abuse |url= https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/may/06/sun-ed-miliband-labour-mail-telegraph-election |work= The Guardian |access-date= 22 November 2021 |archive-date= 22 November 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211122163339/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/may/06/sun-ed-miliband-labour-mail-telegraph-election |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= McKee |first= Ruth |date= 3 June 2017 |title= Which parties are the UK press backing in the general election? |url= https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/03/which-parties-are-the-uk-press-backing-in-the-general-election |work= The Guardian |access-date= 22 November 2021 |archive-date= 16 November 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211116190123/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/03/which-parties-are-the-uk-press-backing-in-the-general-election |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Mayhew |first= Freddy |date= 9 December 2019 |title= What the papers say about the 2019 general election |url= https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/what-the-papers-say-about-the-2019-general-election/ |work= Press Gazette |access-date= 22 November 2021 |archive-date= 22 November 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211122163341/https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/what-the-papers-say-about-the-2019-general-election/ |url-status= live }}</ref> While the paper retained its support for the Conservative Party at the [[2015 United Kingdom general election|2015 general election]], the paper urged conservatively inclined voters to support [[UKIP]] in the constituencies of [[Heywood and Middleton]], [[Dudley North (UK Parliament constituency)|Dudley North]], and [[Great Grimsby (UK Parliament constituency)|Great Grimsby]] where UKIP was the main challenger to the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]].{{citation needed|date=December 2018}}

On international affairs, regarding the [[Russia–Georgia war|2008 South Ossetia war]] between Russia and [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], the ''Mail'' said that Russia had "behaved with shocking arrogance and brutality", but accused the British government of dragging Britain into an unnecessary confrontation with Russia and of hypocrisy regarding its protests over Russian recognition of [[Abkhazia]] and [[South Ossetia]]'s independence, citing the British government's own recognition of [[Kosovo]]'s independence from Russia's ally [[Serbia]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1050075/MAIL-COMMENT-Is-Miliband-talking-war.html|title=Mail comment: Is Miliband talking us into another war?|newspaper=Daily Mail|date=28 August 2008|access-date=29 August 2008|location=London|archive-date=28 August 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828140409/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1050075/MAIL-COMMENT-Is-Miliband-talking-war.html|url-status=live}}</ref>{{primary source inline|date=August 2024}}

The ''Mail'' published an article by [[Joanna Blythman]] in 2012 opposing the growing of [[genetically modified crops]] in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite news|last=Blythman|first=Joanna|title=Vandals! No, not protesters trashing crops but the GM lobby still trying to force increasingly discredited Frankenstein Food down our throats|url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2151380/GM-lobby-trying-force-increasingly-discredited-Frankenstein-Food-throats.html|access-date=1 August 2012|newspaper=Daily Mail|date=28 May 2012|location=London|archive-date=2 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702055824/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2151380/GM-lobby-trying-force-increasingly-discredited-Frankenstein-Food-throats.html|url-status=live}}</ref>{{primary source inline|date=August 2024}}

The ''Daily Mail'' endorsed voting leave in the [[2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum]].<ref>David A.L. Levy, Billur Aslan, Diego Bironzo. [https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2018-11/UK_Press_Coverage_of_the_%20EU_Referendum.pdf "Press coverage of the EU referendum"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604223350/https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2018-11/UK_Press_Coverage_of_the_%20EU_Referendum.pdf |date=4 June 2023 }}. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 8 September 2016.</ref>