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==Political allegiance==
With the exception of the [[2001 United Kingdom general election|2001 general election]] when it backed the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]],<ref>{{cite news |author=Claire Cozens |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/jun/07/generalelection.dailyexpress |title=Express Labour |work=The Guardian |location=London |date=7 June 2001 |access-date=18 May 2015 |archive-date=16 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240516225828/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/jun/07/generalelection.dailyexpress |url-status=live }}</ref> and the [[2015 United Kingdom general election|2015 general election]] when it backed the [[UK Independence Party]],<ref name="express1">{{cite news |date=6 May 2015 |title=Daily Express urges British public to vote Ukip for a patriotic future |work=Daily Express |location=London |url=http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/575148/Vote-Ukip-patriotic-Britain |url-status=dead |access-date=18 May 2015 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150507061301/http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/575148/Vote-Ukip-patriotic-Britain |archive-date=7 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/574569/Ukip-in-touch-ordinary-British-people |title= Sunday Express backs Nigel Farage's Ukip for 2015 election for real change in Britain |work= Daily Express |location= London |date= 3 May 2015 |access-date= 18 May 2015 |archive-date= 6 May 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150506001306/http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/574569/Ukip-in-touch-ordinary-British-people |url-status= live }}</ref> the newspaper has declared its support for the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] at every general election since [[World War II]].<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> In 2011, when the newspaper first endorsed UKIP, it became one of the first media outlets in the United Kingdom to demand a [[Brexit|withdrawal from the European Union]].<ref>Tooze, Adam (2018). ''Crashed : how a decade of financial crises changed the world''. New York, New York: Viking Press. p. 544. {{ISBN|978-0-670-02493-3}}. {{OCLC|1039188461}}.</ref> 
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{| class="wikitable"
! Election
! colspan="2" | Endorsement
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| [[1945 United Kingdom general election|1945]]
| {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}
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| [[1951 United Kingdom general election|1951]]
| {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}
|-
| [[1955 United Kingdom general election|1955]]
| {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}
|-
| [[1959 United Kingdom general election|1959]]
| {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}
|-
| [[1964 United Kingdom general election|1964]]
| {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}
|-
| [[1966 United Kingdom general election|1966]]
| {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}
|-
| [[1970 United Kingdom general election|1970]]
| {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}
|-
| [[February 1974 United Kingdom general election|February 1974]]
| {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}
|-
| [[October 1974 United Kingdom general election|October 1974]]
| {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}
|-
| [[1979 United Kingdom general election|1979]]
| {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}
|-
| [[1983 United Kingdom general election|1983]]
| {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}
|-
| [[1987 United Kingdom general election|1987]]
| {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}
|-
| [[1992 United Kingdom general election|1992]]
| {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}
|-
| [[1997 United Kingdom general election|1997]]
| {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}
|-
| [[2001 United Kingdom general election|2001]]
| {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}}
|-
| [[2005 United Kingdom general election|2005]]
| {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}
|-
| [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010]]
| {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}
|-
| [[2015 United Kingdom general election|2015]]
| {{party name with colour|UK Independence Party}}
|-
| [[2017 United Kingdom general election|2017]]
| {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}
|-
| [[2019 United Kingdom general election|2019]]
| {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}
|-
| [[2024 United Kingdom general election|2024]]
| {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}
|}

==="Crusade for Freedom"===
"Crusade for Freedom" was the newspaper's own campaign to give the people of the United Kingdom the opportunity to add their names to a petition addressed to the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] in favour of Britain's withdrawal from the [[European Union]]. Each edition of the 8 January 2011 issue had four cut-out vouchers where readers could sign the pledge and send them to the paper's HQ where the petition was being compiled; there were also further editions with the same voucher included.<ref>"A crusade for freedom", ''Daily Express'', page 55, 8 January 2011.</ref> The campaign attracted the support of many celebrities including sportsman/TV personality [[Ian Botham]]<ref>"Botham backs our drive for public vote on Europe", ''Daily Express'', page 59, 8 January 2011.</ref> as well as [[J D Wetherspoon]] chairman [[Tim Martin (businessman)|Tim Martin]],<ref>"Euro red tape is strangling UK enterprise", ''Daily Express'', page 69, 8 January 2011.</ref> who both gave interviews for 8 January's special edition of the paper. The first week of the campaign saw a response of around 370,000 signatures being received (just over 50% of daily readership or around 0.6% of the UK population).